From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 14 8:40:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CA0537B401; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:40:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD8C43E75; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:40:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gAEGcBXD049218; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:38:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAEGau8H049211; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:36:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:36:56 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: current@freebsd.org Subject: **HEADS UP** /usr/bin/perl wrapper removal imminent Message-ID: <20021114163656.GA49184@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: current@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , current@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The /usr/bin/perl wrapper isn't solving many of the problems it was imported to deal with. There are limitations to it that don't have a clear "fix". One of the bigger problems is the duplicate "perl" binaries that occurs building and using packages from /usr/ports. Since the import of the /usr/bin/perl wrapper, the Perl port has gained an enhanced "use.perl" script that solves the problems. Thus the wrapper will be removed from the base system in a 5 days (Monday Nov 18th PST). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message