Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:17:48 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <20050130201748.GA22358@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <m3ekg3av1f.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129220905.46ab86ae.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <41FBFDD9.7070605@mac.com> <20050130162753.D9021@a2.scoop.co.nz> <41FC67D8.2020609@mac.com> <20050130050110.GC1209@k7.mavetju> <41FCB779.7030902@mac.com> <20050130105424.GA31598@xor.obsecurity.org> <m3ekg3av1f.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
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--YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 02:47:08PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: >=20 > > In other words, it's an impossible dream to hope that all scripts will > > conform to this or any of the other possible choices (remember the > > perl motto). Even making everything perl in the ports collection use > > a uniform style is probably an infeasible task (recall 840 ports use > > /usr/bin/perl, and that's not counting the others that use another > > hardcoded variant of /usr/local/bin/perl). >=20 > Well, broken ports are marked broken and removed after some months. > How would broken Perl ports justify special treatment? As I mention above, it's a rule that would be impossible to enforce on third party scripts, so it would be wasted effort to try. Kris --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB/UDrWry0BWjoQKURAuvgAJ0R6ofTGwzYE3o0hKWVpf21bo/sDgCeJxzu VyYuHsLSSC0mhpEc0NRbj9c= =3wuN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4--
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