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- From: kochmar@sei.cmu.edu (John Kochmar)
- Subject: Re: Vendors Considered Evil (Re: Perl use over NFS)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.155801.14501@sei.cmu.edu>
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- References: <1992Aug27.070250.5447@netlabs.com> <1992Aug27.180847.15448@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <1992Aug28.145234.17625@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:58:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.145234.17625@news.eng.convex.com>, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> writes:
- |> ...
- |> In the particular case of perl, it really does make things *much*
- |> easier if there is an agreed-upon, standard location. The
- |> preferred strategy is to put a link in /usr/bin pointing to
- |> where it actually lives, which varies from machine to machine.
- |>
- |> Of course, those lucky folks whose vendors already ship perl
- |> on the system in /usr/bin have no such concern. (Hm, I've been
- |> thinking of putting it in /bin so it's mounted with root. :-)
- |> ...
-
- OK, I'll bite: why is it that it is much easier if perl is in an agreed
- upon place like /usr/bin?
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- We use /usr/local for all tools that aren't part of the standard
- distribution that the vendor sends us, and I've made all sorts of
- software work cleanly while living in /usr/local (and, in almost all
- cases, without the use of symbolic links in /usr/bin.) This model
- works really well for us, and most tools will work with this model
- if the programmers weren't of the lazy sort who like to hardwire
- paths into the binary.
-
- John
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