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To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
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Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru>
Subject: Re: perl links
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in message <86zl1btumw.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>,
wrote Randal L. Schwartz thusly...
>
> >>>>> "Anton" == Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru> writes:
>
>
> Anton> most perl scripts begins with
>
> Anton> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> Anton> this is common convention (also outside *BSD world)
>
> In fact, it's the recommendation from the original Camel book in 1990
> (which I wrote, but the kids forget that :) that no matter where you
> install Perl, you always link/symlink /usr/bin/perl so that scripts can
> safely use shebang.

So, you are the guilty one.  By that logic, every software should
assume some location, so that people can have fun with link farm
maintainance.


  - parv

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