RFC: change to bsd.perl.mk

Chris Rees crees at freebsd.org
Sat Jul 16 21:51:05 UTC 2011


On 16 Jul 2011 22:26, "Mark Linimon" <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
>
> > If bsd.perl.mk is going to be included unconditionally, what's the
> > point of having it in a separate file?
>
>  - perl team can make changes (e.g. minor version update of perl)
>   without -exp run and portmgr approval.  (I would still prefer to do
>   -exp runs for major version updates, of course).
>
>  - easier to read the code.
>

If it's unconditionally included, how does that exempt it from exp-runs?

Surely it's equally risky to commit to it as bsd.port.mk, or have I missed
something?

Chris


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