On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:31:21AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:I do want scripts to use a portable mechanism to invoke Perl regardless of where the binary happens to be found, but if people are determined to do otherwise, well, that's up to them. One solution for those people might be to install the Perl port with a $PREFIX of /usr rather than /usr/local.
And I want a pony :-)
I don't expect to get what I want, either. :-)
In other words, it's an impossible dream to hope that all scripts will conform to this or any of the other possible choices (remember the perl motto). Even making everything perl in the ports collection use a uniform style is probably an infeasible task (recall 840 ports use /usr/bin/perl, and that's not counting the others that use another hardcoded variant of /usr/local/bin/perl).
Good word, that. It is infeasible to get hundreds of people to all follow a convention-- any convention, no matter how simple and reasonable-- simply by wishing for it. Since a perfect solution does not exist, it is fortunate that we don't actually need one: just something that is good enough for now, for the present tasks.
The Perl software I actually use either works fine regardless of whether perl is in /usr/bin, /sw/bin, /opt/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/pkg/bin, or who knows where else, or else I fix it to suit my requirements when I notice a problem.
-- -Chuck
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