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Date:      Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:19:43 +0100
From:      Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net>
To:        Mark Sergeant <msergeant@snsonline.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone
Message-ID:  <20050130111943.GD62253@voodoo.oberon.net>
In-Reply-To: <b50544e4934ebbb87557ab75c861d6eb@snsonline.net>
References:  <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <41FC75E9.3060601@freebsd.org> <20050130104732.GA30800@intserv.int1.b.intern> <20050130105323.GB62253@voodoo.oberon.net> <b50544e4934ebbb87557ab75c861d6eb@snsonline.net>

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On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 09:08:34PM +1000, Mark Sergeant wrote:
> >If it's linux tradition to put perl in this path, perl programmers
> >should assume another path on FreeBSD, so it isn't an argument for
> >the proposed change.
> >
> As per the current perl-5.8.6 INSTALL file ...
> 
> It may seem obvious, but Perl is useful only when users can easily
> find it.  It's often a good idea to have both /usr/bin/perl and
> /usr/local/bin/perl be symlinks to the actual binary.

/usr/bin and /usr/local/bin are *BOTH* in default $PATH.

-Kirill



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