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

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:28:10PM +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 01:16:34PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > The thing is, that the whole idea of touching /usr/bin at all made sense
> > > when perl was in the base system and we needed a way to "replace" it
> > > with a version from ports.
> > > 
> > > Since we don't have it in the base for quite some time, there is no good
> > > reason to continue cluttering /usr/bin with those symlinks.  So this
> > > needs to be done eventually, and this seemed as good time as any to
> > > introduce this change.
> > 
> > Maybe we should continue to create (and also remove) the links for 5.x
> > and try the change out in 6.x to see what kind of an impact is has.
> 
> In this case we can miss what ports are actually broken, since not
> everyone is running 6.x.

I expect there'll be enough obviously-broken ports to deal with for a
while, and we can then evaluate progress once they're taken care of.

Kris
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