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

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:08:48PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote:
> [ok, returning it to ports@ too, there might be some interest]
> 
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 01:03:52PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 09:59:40PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote:
> > 
> > > > 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?
> > 
> > It seems pretty disruptive, especially to users of the -stable branch,
> > and I'm not sure there's a good reason for doing it.
> 
> 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.

Kris

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