Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 02:54:24 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> 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: <20050130105424.GA31598@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <41FCB779.7030902@mac.com> 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>
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--17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:31:21AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > I do want scripts to use a portable mechanism to invoke Perl regardless o= f=20 > where the binary happens to be found, but if people are determined to do= =20 > otherwise, well, that's up to them. One solution for those people might = be=20 > to install the Perl port with a $PREFIX of /usr rather than /usr/local. And I want a pony :-) 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). Kris --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB/LzgWry0BWjoQKURAvJIAKD3LD/kenRb82uEBVEJIoYDjYrbSwCgyJjA VghH9fGRac/oFriv6nkbzJU= =tkJ/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp--
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