Re: 'make upgrade' deletes /usr/bin/perl5

["Erik P. Skaalerud" <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

walt wrote:
> > I filed a bug report with gnome.org suggesting the change to the
> > glib configure script, but I'm not holding my breath ;o)
>
>
>
> I just got this response to my bug report:
> ===============================================
> Do you expect gtk-doc to work out-of-the-box with perl6?
>
> Back when this configure.in check was originally written, perl=perl4
> perl5=perl5 was quite common, admittedly probably rare now.
> ===============================================

What they mean is "If your system only has /usr/bin/perl, what happends 
then if you have one application that needs perl5 and another one that 
needs perl6?".. etc

As a follow-up to this discussion, there looks like there are more apps 
depending on /usr/bin/perl5. Also, the FreeBSD perl5.8 port installs a 
perl5 symlink, so I really dont see _why_ we have to remove that symlink.

Its causing more trouble than pleasure.

- Erik