Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 14:40:05 +0100 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <200205091340.g49De5jV022646@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <1020950276.15680.23.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk> ; from Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> "09 May 2002 14:17:55 BST." References: <1020950276.15680.23.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk>
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> 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
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