Should /usr/bin/perl be a link to /usr/local/bin/perl ?
Erik Trulsson
Erik.Trulsson.1013 at student.uu.se
Tue Oct 22 09:25:56 UTC 2013
Quoting Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com>:
> I found that many ports specify /usr/bin/perl as an interpreter.
> This comes from Linux. Examples: valgrind-snapshot, windowmaker,
> enscript-a4, a2ps, svgalib
Just for the record, it does not come from Linux.
Specifying /usr/bin/perl as the interpreter is a Perl convention which
was established before Linux (or FreeBSD for that matter) even existed.
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