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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!darwin.sura.net!convex!convex!tchrist
- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Vendors Considered Evil (Re: Perl use over NFS)
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.192654.24824@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:26:54 GMT
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- References: <2ttyzz=@rpi.edu> <1992Aug31.155516.24977@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO
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- From the keyboard of dave@nakiska.ucs.ualberta.ca (David Ross):
- :No no no no no. Don't put ANYTHING in /usr/{bin,etc,lib,man} - put all
- :locally installed modifications in /usr/local! Don't even put symbolic
- :links in /usr/bin! It's more work for you, it's confusing for the users
- :when you do an upgrade and you forget to recreate a link, and it's
- :completely unnecessary if you are consistent!
-
- It's Evil of the vendor to touch things that they didn't lay down.
- Why don't more people complain bitterly about this?
-
- :Perl is not a standard UNIX distribution - don't assume it is.
-
- It's hard to say what a standard UNIX distribution, is, don't you think?
-
- :All perl
- :scripts should start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl!
-
- Aha! You are attempting to enforce an arbitrary a standard
- as the next guy. It's not like this all over. For example, at the
- University of Wisconsin, we have /usr/uw and /usr/misc, but no
- /usr/local, except on a very few machines, and these would have
- /usr/local/program, not /usr/local/bin/program.
-
- --tom
-
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
-
- "The road to hell is paved with melting snowballs."
- --Larry Wall in <1992Jul2.222039.26476@netlabs.com>
-