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

From: Erik Trulsson (ertr1013_at_student.uu.se)
Date: 01/30/05

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    Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:05:26 +0100
To: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net>

    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. 

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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se
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