Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:45:12 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ntp Makefile config.h src/usr.sbin/ntp/arlib Makefile src/usr.sbin/ntp/doc Makefile ntp-genkeys.8 src/usr.sbin/ntp/libntp Makefile... Message-ID: <20050614194512.GB13882@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <42AF314A.6080701@samsco.org> References: <200407201544.i6KFiWWr001296@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050613110937.GA29004@roughtrade.net> <20050613144244.GA45110@tara.freenix.org> <20050613233625.GF11349@roughtrade.net> <20050614104106.GA14918@tara.freenix.org> <20050614192854.GA13882@dragon.NUXI.org> <42AF314A.6080701@samsco.org>
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:34:34PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:41:06PM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: > >>According to Joshua Goodall: > >> > >>>FreeBSD's use.perl script deliberately manages a symlink from > >>>/usr/bin/perl to (for example) my /opt/bin/perl5.8.6. I believe > >>>that using the managed link is more correct than making assumptions > >>>about $LOCALBASE. > >> > >>You have a point. What do others say? > > > >We should stop creating a /usr/bin/perl symlink. We don't create > >/usr/bin/python or /usr/bin/ruby. We should stop treating Perl a > >something more special than other 3rd-party scripting languages. > >What would we do if this file were a ruby script? > >That is what we should do for it as a Perl script. > > And interoperability with the trillions of perl scripts that start > with > > #!/usr/bin/perl > isn't a big deal? I vote for what gives our users the least headaches. That is an argument to keep the /usr/bin/perl symlink. Not an augment to continue the bad practice post FreeBSD-5. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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