Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone

From: Chuck Swiger (cswiger_at_mac.com)
Date: 01/30/05

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    Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:46:13 -0500
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>

    Kris Kennaway wrote:
    > On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:31:21AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
    >>I do want scripts to use a portable mechanism to invoke Perl regardless of
    >>where the binary happens to be found, but if people are determined to do
    >>otherwise, well, that's up to them. One solution for those people might be
    >>to install the Perl port with a $PREFIX of /usr rather than /usr/local.
    >
    > And I want a pony :-)

    I don't expect to get what I want, either. :-)

    > In other words, it's an impossible dream to hope that all scripts will
    > conform to this or any of the other possible choices (remember the
    > perl motto). Even making everything perl in the ports collection use
    > a uniform style is probably an infeasible task (recall 840 ports use
    > /usr/bin/perl, and that's not counting the others that use another
    > hardcoded variant of /usr/local/bin/perl).

    Good word, that. It is infeasible to get hundreds of people to all follow a
    convention-- any convention, no matter how simple and reasonable-- simply by
    wishing for it. Since a perfect solution does not exist, it is fortunate that
    we don't actually need one: just something that is good enough for now, for
    the present tasks.

    The Perl software I actually use either works fine regardless of whether perl
    is in /usr/bin, /sw/bin, /opt/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/pkg/bin, or who knows
    where else, or else I fix it to suit my requirements when I notice a problem. 

    -- 
-Chuck
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