DHCP server in base

[David DEMELIER]

2010/9/14 Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net>:
>> 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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Well I see, thanks !

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Demelier David