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Anton BerezinJan 29, 2005 12:32 pm 
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Subject:[HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone
From:Edwin Groothuis (edw@mavetju.org)
Date:Jan 29, 2005 4:02:49 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-stable

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:17:47PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote:

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:09:05PM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote:

Anton Berezin wrote:

In practical terms this will mean a one-time sweep of your scripts in order to convert them, in a typical case, from #! /usr/bin/perl to #! /usr/local/bin/perl.

Wouldn't that break most of the 3rd party scripts out in the world?

Yes, hence the HEADS UP with a possibility to back off if people really sure it is a bad idea.

With the removal of perl from the base-system, they put something in place to make sure that the installed version from the ports collection would be a drop-in replacement and that no functionality would be removed. It all worked like a charm.

Be pragmatic, a little bit pollution (a handfull of symlinks only, not even real files) gives you the flexibility to run whatever Perl version you want.

Please don't break it now.

Edwin

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