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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey)
- Subject: Re: Vendors Considered Evil (Re: Perl use over NFS)
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- References: <1992Aug28.180137.22861@ra.msstate.edu> <1992Aug28.183918.22664@sei.cmu.edu> <1992Aug30.215306.12595@puma.ATL.GE.COM>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 12:42:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug30.215306.12595@puma.ATL.GE.COM> rsnyder@atl.ge.com (Bob Snyder) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug28.183918.22664@sei.cmu.edu> kochmar@sei.cmu.edu (John Kochmar) writes:
- >
- >>You've gotta be kidding, right? You're not advocating that perl be
- >>placed in /usr/bin so that scripts you pick up from who-knows-where
- >>will run without modification, right?
- >>
- >>I got the same response from someone else in private mail. Since I
- >>don't make a habit of picking up a script and running it without
- >>checking it over, I don't see changing the #! at the beginning to be
- >>that big a deal.
-
- >But when you have a multi-user environment, and new users coming in, they
- >expect that programs will be in certain commonly known locations, like sh
- >and perl. I don't neccesarily like where it goes, but that is where most
- >people expect to find it.
-
- Umm... folks? You do know about symbolic links, don't you? You do know that
- it's common practice to put site-specific material in a non-/usr paritition
- and place symbolic links from the /usr filesystem (or from /bin) to them?
- This solves both problems. In addition, it makes it a whole lot easier to
- install a new operating system from scratch on another machine, and customize
- it by copying over all the site specific information.
- --scott
-