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

Lev Serebryakov lev at serebryakov.spb.ru
Sun Jan 30 02:44:44 PST 2005


Hello Anton,

Saturday, January 29, 2005, 11:24:25 PM, you wrote:

AB> Unless I hear too many cries "don't do that" (with justification), I
AB> plan to not create any perl symlinks in /usr/bin in the forthcoming
AB> upgrade of both lang/perl5.8 (to 5.8.6) and lang/perl5 (to 5.6.2).  

AB> In practical terms this will mean a one-time sweep of your scripts in
AB> order to convert them, in a typical case, from #! /usr/bin/perl to
AB> #! /usr/local/bin/perl.
  In all scripts of all my friends, who have hosting on my server & use perl scripts?
  NO, THANKS!


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 Lev                            mailto:lev at serebryakov.spb.ru



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