71 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-stable[HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin ...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Anton Berezin | Jan 29, 2005 12:32 pm | |
| Kirill Ponomarew | Jan 29, 2005 1:02 pm | |
| Kris Kennaway | Jan 29, 2005 1:08 pm | |
| Oliver Lehmann | Jan 29, 2005 1:21 pm | |
| Steven Hartland | Jan 29, 2005 1:21 pm | |
| Anton Berezin | Jan 29, 2005 1:22 pm | |
| Chuck Swiger | Jan 29, 2005 1:22 pm | |
| Erik Trulsson | Jan 29, 2005 1:26 pm | |
| Robert Watson | Jan 29, 2005 2:17 pm | |
| Mark Kirkwood | Jan 29, 2005 2:27 pm | |
| Dimitry Andric | Jan 29, 2005 2:50 pm | |
| Phil Kernick | Jan 29, 2005 3:28 pm | |
| Edwin Groothuis | Jan 29, 2005 4:02 pm | |
| Fred Condo | Jan 29, 2005 4:41 pm | |
| Peter Jeremy | Jan 29, 2005 5:00 pm | |
| Douglas G. Allen | Jan 29, 2005 6:37 pm | |
| Max Laier | Jan 29, 2005 6:37 pm | |
| Matthias Andree | Jan 29, 2005 6:39 pm | |
| Erik Trulsson | Jan 29, 2005 7:08 pm | |
| Andrew McNaughton | Jan 29, 2005 7:18 pm | |
| Andrew McNaughton | Jan 29, 2005 7:35 pm | |
| Lars Erik Gullerud | Jan 29, 2005 8:26 pm | |
| Chuck Swiger | Jan 29, 2005 8:54 pm | |
| Edwin Groothuis | Jan 29, 2005 9:00 pm | |
| Scott Long | Jan 29, 2005 9:51 pm | |
| Chris | Jan 29, 2005 10:18 pm | |
| sth...@nethelp.no | Jan 29, 2005 11:59 pm | |
| sth...@nethelp.no | Jan 30, 2005 12:16 am | |
| Oliver Brandmueller | Jan 30, 2005 1:50 am | |
| Lupe Christoph | Jan 30, 2005 2:03 am | |
| Xander Damen | Jan 30, 2005 2:13 am | |
| Chuck Swiger | Jan 30, 2005 2:31 am | |
| Lev Serebryakov | Jan 30, 2005 2:45 am | |
| Holger Kipp | Jan 30, 2005 2:47 am | |
| Kirill Ponomarew | Jan 30, 2005 2:55 am | |
| Kris Kennaway | Jan 30, 2005 2:56 am | |
| Edwin Groothuis | Jan 30, 2005 3:07 am | |
| Frerich Raabe | Jan 30, 2005 3:08 am | |
| Holger Kipp | Jan 30, 2005 3:10 am | |
| Mark Sergeant | Jan 30, 2005 3:11 am | |
| Kirill Ponomarew | Jan 30, 2005 3:18 am | |
| Mathieu Arnold | Jan 30, 2005 3:23 am | |
| Phil Bowens | Jan 30, 2005 3:24 am | |
| Kirill Ponomarew | Jan 30, 2005 3:25 am | |
| Dave Horsfall | Jan 30, 2005 3:44 am | |
| Chuck Swiger | Jan 30, 2005 3:55 am | |
| Chuck Swiger | Jan 30, 2005 4:26 am | |
| Robert Watson | Jan 30, 2005 4:49 am | |
| Robert Watson | Jan 30, 2005 4:51 am | |
| Erik Trulsson | Jan 30, 2005 5:06 am | |
| Matthias Andree | Jan 30, 2005 5:59 am | |
| Matthias Andree | Jan 30, 2005 6:00 am | |
| Matthias Andree | Jan 30, 2005 6:00 am | |
| Matthias Andree | Jan 30, 2005 6:00 am | |
| Anton Berezin | Jan 30, 2005 6:16 am | |
| Erik Trulsson | Jan 30, 2005 7:34 am | |
| Erik Trulsson | Jan 30, 2005 7:56 am | |
| Sven Willenberger | Jan 30, 2005 8:13 am | |
| Chris Doherty | Jan 30, 2005 8:56 am | |
| Kris Kennaway | Jan 30, 2005 12:17 pm | |
| Doug Hardie | Jan 30, 2005 12:41 pm | |
| Parv | Jan 30, 2005 3:45 pm | |
| Kevin Oberman | Jan 30, 2005 5:19 pm | |
| Jack L. Stone | Jan 31, 2005 6:52 am | |
| Jared Earle | Jan 31, 2005 8:10 am | |
| Parv | Jan 31, 2005 6:17 pm | |
| Christian Weisgerber | Feb 3, 2005 11:07 am | |
| Dan Nelson | Feb 3, 2005 11:36 am | |
| Charles Swiger | Feb 3, 2005 12:33 pm | |
| Christian Weisgerber | Feb 3, 2005 12:55 pm | |
| Charles Swiger | Feb 3, 2005 1:47 pm |
| Subject: | [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone | |
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| From: | Erik Trulsson (ertr...@student.uu.se) | |
| Date: | Jan 30, 2005 5:06:21 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-stable | |
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:53:23AM +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:47:32AM +0100, Holger Kipp wrote:
I'm fine with this plan for 6-CURRENT. For 5-STABLE, it's a major user-visible change, and that is something that we promised to avoid with stable branches.
It violates POLA on 5-STABLE, and it will violate POLA on 6-CURRENT, especially as most perl programmers assume /usr/bin/perl to be the correct path.
If it's linux tradition to put perl in this path, perl programmers should assume another path on FreeBSD, so it isn't an argument for the proposed change.
It is not a *Linux* tradition. It is a *Perl* tradition which predates both Linux and FreeBSD. Most Perl documentation, going back over a decade, has used #!/usr/bin/perl in example scripts and strongly suggested that system administrators should put Perl there.
I would say that there are probably more Perl scripts out there that refer to "#!/usr/bin/perl" than all other variants put together.
We had enough good arguments against this change already, so imho the correct thing to do is do just what Kris asked for: remove the _dangling_ symlinks.
-- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr...@student.uu.se