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Date:      Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:54:45 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/perl Makefile
Message-ID:  <20020607145445.A91889@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzphekekc9o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:30:11PM %2B0200
References:  <200206071855.g57Ithx67035@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzphekekc9o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:30:11PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> >   Log:
> >   Install a "perl5.6.1" wrapper.  I think this is going too far as now
> >   /usr/src has to carefully watch the Perl port to keep this in sync.
> >   But this is the only way I am allowed to fix the mozzila build
> >   (and other USE_PERL5 ports).
> 
> Please back this out, this is a bug in bsd.port.mk which will be fixed
> very shortly.

We need to state what the policy for /usr/bin/perl* is.
People have been known to use #!/usr/bin/perl, #!/usr/bin/perl5, and even
#!/usr/bin/perl<VERSION> in scripts.  So while I do consider this commit
a wart, how compatible with the in-/usr/src perl installation should we
be?

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