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Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone
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Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> 
> Please create an option to allow us install Perl with the symlinks in  
> /usr/bin/. I ain't going to edit all third-party Perl files. I do agree  
> for ports shouldn't touch in /usr/bin/, but as for Perl it's special 
> that  has been in /usr/bin/ for years.

Wouldn't it be cleaner if there was a separate perl-symlinks package 
that created symlinks from /usr/local/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl?  This 
would make creating symlinks happen regardless of whether you install 
from a binary package versus installing from the /usr/ports.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>