Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 08:58:29 +0100 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: dimitry@andric.com Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <63951.1107071909@bizet.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:46:51 %2B0100" References: <1451245397.20050129234651@andric.com>
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> > Unless I hear too many cries "don't do that" (with justification), I > > plan to not create any perl symlinks in /usr/bin in the forthcoming > > upgrade of both lang/perl5.8 (to 5.8.6) and lang/perl5 (to 5.6.2). This > > will ONLY be true for FreeBSD 5.X and FreeBSD CURRENT; the existing > > pollution of /usr/bin will still be performed for older versions of > > FreeBSD, if requested via use.perl script. > > What purpose does this serve? To keep the base system clean? I'm not > convinced that having just a few (2?) symlinks in /usr/bin will > "pollute" the base system, but it does save having to modify > potentially thousands of scripts. Isn't the latter *much* more > expensive? Agreed. Removing perl symlinks in /usr/bin is an incredibly bad idea. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
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