DHCP server in base

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:13:58 +0200
> From: David DEMELIER <demelier.david at gmail.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> 
> 2010/9/14 Marian Hettwer <mh at kernel32.de>:
> > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:11:28 +0200, David DEMELIER
> > <demelier.david at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 2010/9/13 Gordon Tetlow <gordon at tetlows.org>:
> >>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:53 PM, David DEMELIER <demelier.david at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Perl is a great example, I don't really understand why it's in the
> >>>> base, then the port need to rewrite the links into the base hierarchy
> >>>> and I think this is bad.
> >>>
> >>> Perl is not in the base system anymore. It's in the ports system.
> >>> Gordon
> >>
> >> Oh sorry I didn't saw that ! (I'm not following -current yet). Perfect !
> >
> > Uh. Perl was moved to ports somewhere in 2002 or 2003, IIRC.
> > Nothing to do with following -current ;-)
> >
> > ./Marian
> >
> 
> Oh then I'm confused, why the ports still rewrite links in /usr/bin then ?

This was a way to avoid breaking the huge number of perl scripts that
had: #!/usr/bin/perl as the first line. If perl simply moved to
/usr/local/bin, this would have broken a LOT of stuff people were doing,
so it was decided to put a link in /usr/bin. The port now has an option
to control this, but it is still there by default:
USE_PERL "Rewritelinks in /usr/bin" on
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