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Date:      Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:23:43 +0100
From:      Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc>
To:        perl@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone
Message-ID:  <ABE93926F920C0AB0B480782@cc-147.int.t-online.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20050130111943.GD62253@voodoo.oberon.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> <20050130111943.GD62253@voodoo.oberon.net>

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+-le 30/01/2005 12:19 +0100, Kirill Ponomarew =E9crivait :
| 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.
|> >=20
|> As per the current perl-5.8.6 INSTALL file ...
|>=20
|> 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.
|=20
| /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin are *BOTH* in default $PATH.

Last time I looked, cron did not have usr/local in it's path.

--=20
Mathieu Arnold



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