On Jan 29, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 09:24:25PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote: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.
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.
CORRECT perl-dependant ports should not be affected.
In order to keep pkg-install simple, no old symlink chasing and removal
will be done, although the detailed instructions will be posted in
ports/UPDATING and in pkg-message for the ports.
BTW, this goes beyond what I was asking for, which was just "remove the dangling symlinks when the package is deinstalled [because they are now nonfunctional]"
It goes beyond that, and it should not. As others have stated, this breaks too much for very little benefit. It would be better to implement exactly what Kris suggested.
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