From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 10:03:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E916E16A4CE; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:03:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from buexe.b-5.de (buexe.b-5.de [80.148.32.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4CC343D1D; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:03:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lupe@lupe-christoph.de) Received: from antalya.lupe-christoph.de (antalya.lupe-christoph.de [172.17.0.9])j0UA3Q0L022044; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:03:27 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antalya.lupe-christoph.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA47134603; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:03:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from antalya.lupe-christoph.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (antalya [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22159-03; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:03:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by antalya.lupe-christoph.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A94BC34601; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:03:16 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:03:16 +0100 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050130100316.GC8882@lupe-christoph.de> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: lupe@lupe-christoph.de (Lupe Christoph) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at lupe-christoph.de cc: perl@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: Anton Berezin Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:03:30 -0000 On Saturday, 2005-01-29 at 21:24:25 +0100, Anton Berezin wrote: > Unless I hear too many cries "don't do that" (with justification), ... "don't do that", ever. Eben postponing this to the time 6.0 comes out does not change it. Any upgraded system will fail in interesting and mysterious ways. I see no benefit in not having a /usr/bin/perl, and I see many problems with it. Even when it does not affect my two insignificant ports, I'm against it. If you are still planning on going through with this, please take the idea to the perl5-porters list first. perl5-porters@perl.org My 2 Eurocents, Lupe Christoph -- | lupe@lupe-christoph.de | http://www.lupe-christoph.de/ | | Ask not what your computer can do for you | | ask what you can do for your computer. |