Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:02:28 -0600 From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <200205132002.g4DK2StI089211@orthanc.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 May 2002 19:52:34 EDT." <p0511175ab900b9927511@[128.113.24.47]>
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>>>>> "Garance" == Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> 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
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