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Date:      Sat, 8 Jun 2002 11:08:34 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>
To:        Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Trish Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net>, John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>, Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: perl wrapper and PATH
Message-ID:  <20020608110834.A25686@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020608150739.GD13047@heechee.tobez.org>; from tobez@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 05:07:39PM %2B0200
References:  <200206080935.g589Z2v51306@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> <20020608094010.M403-100000@femme.listmistress.org> <20020608150739.GD13047@heechee.tobez.org>

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On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 05:07:39PM +0200, Anton Berezin wrote:
> It sounds reasonable, but what's the point of having a wrapper at all
> then?
 
One way or the other we need to have /usr/bin/perl exist and be usable.
Many have perl scripts in ~/bin that they expect to run on all modern
OS's -- which means they have /usr/bin/perl.

> I am of the opinion that we don't need the wrapper and that use.perl can
> easily do some symlink magic to solve all outstanding issues with perl
> in -current.

With the limitations in the exiting wrapper, either use.perl or using
mailwrapper is probably what we should do.

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