From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 13 13: 3:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (orthanc.ab.ca [216.123.203.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9304A37B416 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 13:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (localhost.orthanc.ab.ca [127.0.0.1]) by orthanc.ab.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4DK2StI089211; Mon, 13 May 2002 14:02:29 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca) Message-Id: <200205132002.g4DK2StI089211@orthanc.ab.ca> From: Lyndon Nerenberg Organization: The Frobozz Magic Homing Pigeon Company To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Jordan DeLong , Sheldon Hearn , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 May 2002 19:52:34 EDT." X-Mailer: mh-e 5.0.92; MH 6.8.4; Emacs 21.2 Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:02:28 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Garance" == Garance A Drosihn writes: Garance> I agree. That's why a redirector makes more sense, because Garance> the redirector can be part of the base-system, and the port Garance> can be installed in /usr/local. There is one problem with the /usr/bin/perl redirector: it can cause autoconfiguration scripts to mistakenly think perl is installed on the system (they find the /usr/bin/perl wrapper) when it isn't (there is no perl-from-ports backing the redirector). --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message