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

Xander Damen xdamen at sci.kun.nl
Sun Jan 30 02:13:51 PST 2005


Why would upgraded systems cause problems? I don't think the 
upgradesystem will delete any existing symlinks?

Xander

Lupe Christoph wrote:

>On Saturday, 2005-01-29 at 21:24:25 +0100, Anton Berezin wrote:
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>>Unless I hear too many cries "don't do that" (with justification), ...
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>"don't do that", ever.
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>Eben postponing this to the time 6.0 comes out does not change it. Any
>upgraded system will fail in interesting and mysterious ways.
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>I see no benefit in not having a /usr/bin/perl, and I see many problems
>with it. Even when it does not affect my two insignificant ports, I'm
>against it.
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>If you are still planning on going through with this, please take the
>idea to the perl5-porters list first. perl5-porters at perl.org
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>My 2 Eurocents,
>Lupe Christoph
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