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- From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
- Subject: Re: Vendors Considered Evil (Re: Perl use over NFS)
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- References: <1992Aug28.145234.17625@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Aug28.155801.14501@sei.cmu.edu> <1992Aug28.180137.22861@ra.msstate.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:55:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.180137.22861@ra.msstate.edu> fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug28.155801.14501@sei.cmu.edu> kochmar@sei.cmu.edu (John Kochmar) says:
- >: 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
- >: OK, I'll bite: why is it that it is much easier if perl is in an agreed
- >: upon place like /usr/bin?
- >Because perl is a scripting language. That means it wants to have a #!
- >line at the beginning with the path name to an executable. Distributing
- >code in this situation can be an annoyance unless you can arrange to
- >have the path to perl be the same on different systems.
- >
- >I'm not sure, though, that I would characterize this as "*much*
- >easer". It isn't that hard to edit a file or sed a collection of
- >files.
-
- Especially since the Camel book (the standard Perl reference) contains
- a nice little Perl program to fix all the #! lines of scripts for your
- system.
-
- I don't put _anything_ in /usr anymore, not even symbolic links. I don't
- even mount "local" on "/usr"... it goes on "/local". And my "/local" is
- beginning to look more and more like a "/usr" partition all of it's own.
- Someday not too long in the future I'll dump the vendors's /usr completely
- and _then_ I'll mount my local partition on /usr. *grin*.
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