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[David O'Brien]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:34:34PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:41:06PM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> >>According to Joshua Goodall:
> >>
> >>>FreeBSD's use.perl script deliberately manages a symlink from
> >>>/usr/bin/perl to (for example) my /opt/bin/perl5.8.6.  I believe
> >>>that using the managed link is more correct than making assumptions
> >>>about $LOCALBASE.
> >>
> >>You have a point.  What do others say?
> >
> >We should stop creating a /usr/bin/perl symlink.  We don't create
> >/usr/bin/python or /usr/bin/ruby.  We should stop treating Perl a
> >something more special than other 3rd-party scripting languages.
> >What would we do if this file were a ruby script?
> >That is what we should do for it as a Perl script.
> 
> And interoperability with the trillions of perl scripts that start
> with
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> isn't a big deal?  I vote for what gives our users the least headaches.

That is an argument to keep the /usr/bin/perl symlink.  Not an augment to
continue the bad practice post FreeBSD-5.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)