Hi Ian, > This confusing user experience only occurs if someone prepends a > different perl to $PATH. Has anyone actually ever done this and got > useful results ? Has anyone actually even wanted to do this ?
Not that I know off in a separate PATH, but I have seen perl in /usr/local/bin quite some time. > Norbert, is your concern theoretical, or is this a thing you have > actually wanted to do ? I personally have no need for it, but I use servers where this is done, mostly to get newer perl than what is shipped. > but it was buried in a longer mail and Norbert seems to have missed Seems so, sorry. > I certainly agree that this should be demoted to a SHOULD right away. Agreed. Best Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13
