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Date:      Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:17:48 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Cc:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Subject:   Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone
Message-ID:  <20050130201748.GA22358@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <m3ekg3av1f.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
References:  <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129220905.46ab86ae.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <41FBFDD9.7070605@mac.com> <20050130162753.D9021@a2.scoop.co.nz> <41FC67D8.2020609@mac.com> <20050130050110.GC1209@k7.mavetju> <41FCB779.7030902@mac.com> <20050130105424.GA31598@xor.obsecurity.org> <m3ekg3av1f.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>

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On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 02:47:08PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
>=20
> > In other words, it's an impossible dream to hope that all scripts will
> > conform to this or any of the other possible choices (remember the
> > perl motto).  Even making everything perl in the ports collection use
> > a uniform style is probably an infeasible task (recall 840 ports use
> > /usr/bin/perl, and that's not counting the others that use another
> > hardcoded variant of /usr/local/bin/perl).
>=20
> Well, broken ports are marked broken and removed after some months.
> How would broken Perl ports justify special treatment?

As I mention above, it's a rule that would be impossible to enforce on
third party scripts, so it would be wasted effort to try.

Kris

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