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

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:53:23AM +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:47:32AM +0100, Holger Kipp wrote:
> > > I'm fine with this plan for 6-CURRENT.  For 5-STABLE, it's a major
> > > user-visible change, and that is something that we promised to avoid
> > > with stable branches.
> > 
> > It violates POLA on 5-STABLE, and it will violate POLA on 6-CURRENT,
> > especially as most perl programmers assume /usr/bin/perl to be the
> > correct path. 
> 
> 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.

Long before I ever saw FreeBSD or Linux, there were symlinks on the
AIX, SunOS and Solaris machines from /usr/bin/perl pointing to the
right executables.

It's not a Linux-ism, it's like what somebody already pointed out,
best practice for Perl.

Edwin

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