On 2005-01-29 at 21:24:25 Anton Berezin wrote: > Unless I hear too many cries "don't do that" (with justification), I > plan to not create any perl symlinks in /usr/bin in the forthcoming > upgrade of both lang/perl5.8 (to 5.8.6) and lang/perl5 (to 5.6.2). This > will ONLY be true for FreeBSD 5.X and FreeBSD CURRENT; the existing > pollution of /usr/bin will still be performed for older versions of > FreeBSD, if requested via use.perl script.
What purpose does this serve? To keep the base system clean? I'm not convinced that having just a few (2?) symlinks in /usr/bin will "pollute" the base system, but it does save having to modify potentially thousands of scripts. Isn't the latter *much* more expensive?
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