2010/9/14 Kevin Oberman <ober...@es.net>: >> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:13:58 +0200 >> From: David DEMELIER <demelier.da...@gmail.com> >> Sender: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org >> >> 2010/9/14 Marian Hettwer <m...@kernel32.de>: >> > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:11:28 +0200, David DEMELIER >> > <demelier.da...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 2010/9/13 Gordon Tetlow <gor...@tetlows.org>: >> >>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:53 PM, David DEMELIER >> >>> <demelier.da...@gmail.com> >> >>> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> Perl is a great example, I don't really understand why it's in the >> >>>> base, then the port need to rewrite the links into the base hierarchy >> >>>> and I think this is bad. >> >>> >> >>> Perl is not in the base system anymore. It's in the ports system. >> >>> Gordon >> >> >> >> Oh sorry I didn't saw that ! (I'm not following -current yet). Perfect ! >> > >> > Uh. Perl was moved to ports somewhere in 2002 or 2003, IIRC. >> > Nothing to do with following -current ;-) >> > >> > ./Marian >> > >> >> Oh then I'm confused, why the ports still rewrite links in /usr/bin then ? > > This was a way to avoid breaking the huge number of perl scripts that > had: #!/usr/bin/perl as the first line. If perl simply moved to > /usr/local/bin, this would have broken a LOT of stuff people were doing, > so it was decided to put a link in /usr/bin. The port now has an option > to control this, but it is still there by default: > USE_PERL "Rewritelinks in /usr/bin" on > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 >
Well I see, thanks ! -- Demelier David _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
