From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 9 6:40: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.139.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AEB037B40F for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 06:40:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g49De0Zp041430; Thu, 9 May 2002 14:40:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with UUCP id g49De0OH041429; Thu, 9 May 2002 14:40:00 +0100 (BST) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g49De5jV022646; Thu, 9 May 2002 14:40:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Message-Id: <200205091340.g49De5jV022646@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: Paul Richards Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD References: <1020950276.15680.23.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1020950276.15680.23.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk> ; from Paul Richards "09 May 2002 14:17:55 BST." Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 14:40:05 +0100 From: Mark Murray 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 > Does having this redirector serve any useful purpose? It's an extra > piece of code to maintain, it's an extra potential security risk, it's > an extra source of potential confusion to the Perl user if there's a bug > in it, and I can't see any useful purpose in it existing. > > Either /usr/bin/perl is there or it isn't, we don't need a fancy > redirector to tell us it's not installed. > > A symlink is a much more sensible solution to this problem and a > redirector just seems to be creating a toy for the fun of it rather than > to solve any real problem. I'm completely ambivalent on this point. Symlink or redirector; I don't mind. Once perl5 is out of the system cleanly, I'll consider my job done. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message