On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:51:37PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > 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.
[...] > I'm fine with this plan for 6-CURRENT. For 5-STABLE, it's a major > user-visible change, and that is something that we promised to avoid > with stable branches. It violates POLA on 5-STABLE, and it will violate POLA on 6-CURRENT, especially as most perl programmers assume /usr/bin/perl to be the correct path. We had enough good arguments against this change already, so imho the correct thing to do is do just what Kris asked for: remove the _dangling_ symlinks. Regards, Holger Kipp _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
