Re: What have I forgotten about specifying which Perl should be /opt/local/bin/perl?

On 2022-01-22 09:14 EST, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 22, 2022, at 01:15, Gabriel Rosenkoetter wrote: On 2022-01-22 01:28 EST, Kastus Shchuka wrote: $ port echo installed and perl5 perl5 @5.26.1_0+perl5_28 perl5 @5.28.3_0+perl5_28 perl5

Re: What have I forgotten about specifying which Perl should be /opt/local/bin/perl?

s easily have been "1.0" or "0" or "42". Gotcha. I think I agree that synchronizing that to the implied version of Perl is probably less confusing than generating a separate numberspace. -- Gabriel Rosenkoetter (he/him) g...@eclipsed.net OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: What have I forgotten about specifying which Perl should be /opt/local/bin/perl?

rt $ port echo installed and perl5 perl5 @5.26.1_0+perl5_28 perl5 @5.28.3_0+perl5_28 perl5 @5.28.3_0+perl5_30 You see how this is at best confusing and at worst user-antagonistic, right? -- Gabriel Rosenkoetter (he/him) g...@eclipsed.net OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: What have I forgotten about specifying which Perl should be /opt/local/bin/perl?

Do I continue to miss something here? (I'm amply aware of the mechanisms available to write and suggest this alternate display through a pull request. I'm sending email instead to ask whether other people agree with my UX confusion and plausible change.) -- Gabriel Rosenkoetter (he/him) g...@eclipsed.net OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: What have I forgotten about specifying which Perl should be /opt/local/bin/perl?

On 2022-01-21 20:43 EST, Gabriel Rosenkoetter wrote: On 2022-01-21 05:21 EST, Ryan Schmidt wrote: As was already mentioned, the /opt/local/bin/perl symlink is controlled by the perl5 port, so install it with whatever variant you wish. I had to glance back and forth a couple times there. I

Re: What have I forgotten about specifying which Perl should be /opt/local/bin/perl?

urrently unemployed. So… hm. I only skimmed the ticket just now (and will read it in more detail, because I'm interested), but do you know of prior embarkations down this road? It is, demonstrably (the responses to that ticket), a UI/UX wart. (Feel free to reply to this one privately,

Re: What have I forgotten about specifying which Perl should be /opt/local/bin/perl?

e copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit. Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl". If you have

Re: What have I forgotten about specifying which Perl should be /opt/local/bin/perl?

g "man perl" or "perldoc perl". If you have access to the Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page. [72] (gr@wedge:~)% But I expect that'll bite me in the ass when I upgrade the perl5 port…? On 2022-01-20 21:57 EST, Gabriel Rosenkoetter wrote:

What have I forgotten about specifying which Perl should be /opt/local/bin/perl?

s the Perl port never done that, and I've just "always" had an /opt/local/bin/perl sym link I maintained manually? (If so, why'd it get removed by installing a new version?) -- Gabriel Rosenkoetter (he/him) g...@eclipsed.net OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: change .conf files' ownership from root wheel to root admin

at's the reason I responded the way that I did. -- Gabriel Rosenkoetter g...@eclipsed.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: change .conf files' ownership from root wheel to root admin

27;s a good idea, given the situation you described. I think that this symptom indicates that there's probably way more files that have the wrong permissions for them, and I think you should probably try the copy again, preserving permissions. -- Gabriel Rosenkoetter g...@eclipsed.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature