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

From: Matthias Andree (matthias.andree_at_gmx.de)
Date: 01/30/05

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    To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:44:38 +0100

    Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> writes:

    >> Hardcoded paths in scripts are a mess. What if I installed Perl into
    >> /opt/mumble on some other machine? /usr/freeware? /what/ever? Changed
    >> $PREFIX and/or $LOCALBASE?
    >
    > Then you would have nobody but yourself to blame.

    So ports not heeding PREFIX or LOCALBASE aren't buggy? Interesting POV.

    > And what about all the scripts that administrators and users write that
    > are not part of any port? Scripts that were written according to the
    > de-facto standard that having '#!/usr/bin/perl' on the first line of
    > the script will work correctly.

    As mentioned before, #! /usr/bin/env perl is the canonic SHORT way to
    run perl, longer ways are in perlrun(1). 

    -- 
Matthias Andree
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