From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 23:14:54 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377B8106566B for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 23:14:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aiza21@comclark.com) Received: from avmxsmtp1.comclark.com (avmxsmtp1.comclark.com [202.69.191.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C508FC18 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 23:14:52 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnoSANhRv0vKRa7iPGdsb2JhbAAHh16TZwEBAQE1uwSFCQSDIg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.52,179,1270396800"; d="scan'208";a="13531176" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.0.10.3]) ([202.69.174.226]) by avmxsmtp3.comclark.com with ESMTP; 10 Apr 2010 07:14:50 +0800 Message-ID: <4BBFB4E8.9010304@comclark.com> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:14:48 +0800 From: Aiza User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: perl links X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:14:54 -0000 When installing perl i see 2 links between /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin. Is this still required or is it something left over from when perl was part of the base system? symlinking /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.9 and /usr/bin/perl symlinking /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.9 and /usr/bin/perl5