[HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone

Anton Berezin tobez at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 29 13:17:49 PST 2005


On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:09:05PM +0100, 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?

Yes, hence the HEADS UP with a possibility to back off if people really
sure it is a bad idea.

\Anton.
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