On 24 August 2012 11:11, Guillaume Rousse <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> By calling /usr/bin/perl directly... >>>> >>>> What? I don't understand. Do you mean that the Perl programs should have >>>> "#!/usr/bin/perl" as their sha-bang? (Which will require either >>>> postprocessing them or tweaking their installer.) >>> >>> Yes, packaged perl programs should use an unversionned shebang, which is >>> the case for the large majority of them. >> >> We could clean that in spec-helper. >> Along "#!/bin/env perl|python|tcl" => "#!/usr/bin/perl" too. >> > Yes, it seems a marvelous idea to automatically convert python and tcl > scripts to use perl interpreter instead, it will make our base installation > footprint lower :) > > More seriously, we can do it easily for perl and tcl, but with much caution > for python, as we have two different major versions available at once in the > distribution.
Let's say we should do it for perl/php/tcl for now
