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: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:47:08 +0100

    Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:

    > 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).

    Well, broken ports are marked broken and removed after some months.
    How would broken Perl ports justify special treatment? 

    -- 
Matthias Andree
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