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

[Kirill Ponomarew]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 12:23:43PM +0100, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> +-le 30/01/2005 12:19 +0100, Kirill Ponomarew ?crivait :
> | On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 09:08:34PM +1000, Mark Sergeant wrote:
> |> > If it's linux tradition to put perl in this path, perl programmers
> |> > should assume another path on FreeBSD, so it isn't an argument for
> |> > the proposed change.
> |> > 
> |> As per the current perl-5.8.6 INSTALL file ...
> |> 
> |> It may seem obvious, but Perl is useful only when users can easily
> |> find it.  It's often a good idea to have both /usr/bin/perl and
> |> /usr/local/bin/perl be symlinks to the actual binary.
> | 
> | /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin are *BOTH* in default $PATH.
> 
> Last time I looked, cron did not have usr/local in it's path.

I meant user enviroments, not cron.

-Kirill