Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:27:08 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <20050129212708.GA78454@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <41FBFDD9.7070605@mac.com> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129220905.46ab86ae.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <41FBFDD9.7070605@mac.com>
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On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 04:19:21PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Oliver Lehmann wrote: > >Anton Berezin wrote: > >>In practical terms this will mean a one-time sweep of your scripts in > >>order to convert them, in a typical case, from #! /usr/bin/perl to > >>#! /usr/local/bin/perl. > > > >Wouldn't that break most of the 3rd party scripts out in the world? > > Well-behaved 3rd party scripts ought to start Perl via: > > #! /usr/bin/env perl > > ...so long as /usr/local/bin is in the $PATH, they should still work fine. True, but how many 3rd party scripts are well-behaved? A minority is my guess. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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