Unless I hear too many cries "don't do that" (with justification), I plan to not create any perl symlinks in /usr/bin in the forthcoming upgrade of both lang/perl5.8 (to 5.8.6) and lang/perl5 (to 5.6.2). This will ONLY be true for FreeBSD 5.X and FreeBSD CURRENT; the existing pollution of /usr/bin will still be performed for older versions of FreeBSD, if requested via use.perl script.
I have to vote no on this. This will fundamentally break a majority of systems, for no well defined reason. The clean removal of a single symlink does not justify the pain it will create.
If you want to do this in 6-CURRENT, then fine, but leave 5-STABLE alone. Think of this as the equivalent of an ABI change we doesn't happen without really good reason in STABLE. This is not a really good reason.
Phil.
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