Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 11:52:02 -0400 From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> To: GB Clark <gclarkii@vsservices.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020508155202.GE85290@electricjellyfish.net> In-Reply-To: <20020508035501.72d32dfc.gclarkii@vsservices.com> References: <xzpd6w7ilv6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020508075112.66AB638FD@overcee.wemm.org> <20020508035501.72d32dfc.gclarkii@vsservices.com>
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On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:55:01AM -0500, GB Clark wrote: > > On Wed, 08 May 2002 00:51:12 -0700 > Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> wrote: > > >Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > <SNIP> > > > pkg_update is pretty straightforward and should be rewritten in sh > > > > pkg_update should probably be cvs rm'ed and replaced by the portupgrade > > package from the ports collection. > <SNIP> > > So you want to take out perl and replace it with ruby? The portupgrade > package is a ruby script, not C. i think he meant that we should remove it, and if people want the functionality they should be directed to install the portupgrade package from ports. it works much better than pkg_update anyway, i even recall seeing a post from the original author of pkg_update saying just that a while back. -garrett -- garrett rooney Remember, any design flaw you're rooneg@electricjellyfish.net sufficiently snide about becomes http://electricjellyfish.net/ a feature. -- Dan Sugalski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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