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

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 01/30/05

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To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>

    On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 02:47:08PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
    > 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?

    As I mention above, it's a rule that would be impossible to enforce on
    third party scripts, so it would be wasted effort to try.

    Kris

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