Re: /bin/perl

To: bruce@Pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
Cc: bruce@Pixar.com, streeter@cae.wisc.edu, bcwhite@bnr.ca, debian-devel@Pixar.com
Subject: Re: /bin/perl
From: Carl V Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 16:17:46 -0600 (CST)
Message-id: <[🔎] 199602292217.QAA07274@hp-47.cae.wisc.edu>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] m0tsEj1-00063cC@mongo.pixar.com> from "Bruce Perens" at Feb 29, 96 12:13:00 pm

Bruce Perens writes:
> 
> Actually, I was thinking that the perl package should provide /bin/perl and
> make /usr/bin/perl a symbolic link.

I'd agree if it was /usr/bin/perl with /bin/perl as a symlink.
Is perl really needed to boot the system? 
(Do we need it before /usr is mounted?)

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