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Date:      Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:17:47 +0100
From:      Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone
Message-ID:  <20050129211747.GD56998@heechee.tobez.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050129220905.46ab86ae.lehmann@ans-netz.de>
References:  <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129220905.46ab86ae.lehmann@ans-netz.de>

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On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:09:05PM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Anton Berezin wrote:
> 
> > In practical terms this will mean a one-time sweep of your scripts in
> > order to convert them, in a typical case, from #! /usr/bin/perl to
> > #! /usr/local/bin/perl.
> 
> Wouldn't that break most of the 3rd party scripts out in the world?

Yes, hence the HEADS UP with a possibility to back off if people really
sure it is a bad idea.

\Anton.
-- 
The moronity of the universe is a monotonically increasing function. --
Jarkko Hietaniemi



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