[HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone

[Anton Berezin]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:58:07PM -0800, 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]"

True.  Do you oppose to this change, and if yes, why?

\Anton.
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