On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 09:48:05AM -0400, Trish Lynch wrote: > The wrapper is there so that there are no suprises to people that > *expect* perl in the system.
> What would possibly be a good idea is that the wrapper is there, but > it doesn;t actually redirect to the new perl. Then use.perl is run > from the port. The case for "system" should be removed or some way of > relinking to the wrapper instead should be provided? It sounds reasonable, but what's the point of having a wrapper at all then? > The problem is that use.perl is needed on -STABLE systems, so... a > different behaviour when the OS version is >=5 might be needed? I don't like that but I am afraid it has to be done. > I Cc:ed this to the ports maintainer just in case... If they would > like I can fix use.perl to have a different behaviour on -current and > thereafter, but I don;t want to step on anybody's toes. Thanks, but I think I'll try to hack something up during weekend. I am of the opinion that we don't need the wrapper and that use.perl can easily do some symlink magic to solve all outstanding issues with perl in -current. Cheers, \Anton. -- | Anton Berezin | FreeBSD: The power to serve | | catpipe Systems ApS _ _ |_ | http://www.FreeBSD.org | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_(_|| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | +45 7021 0050 | Private: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
