Re: /bin/perl

[dhs@firefly.com (David H. Silber)]

Carl Streeter:
> 
> Bruce Perens writes:
> > 
> > I think that /bin/perl came from the base floppies, not from any package.
> > I guess the best solution is for the perl package to seek out and destroy
> > it.
> 
> That would seem to be a good thing to do if the base is no longer going to 
> provide /bin/perl.  I'll file bug reports on packages that call /bin/perl. 
> Looks like only wenglish, auctex, minicom, and elm (which I'm rebuilding now)

Huh?  I thought we had decided that the base package would provide perl for
use in install/deinstall scripts.  Or will the base provide it in /usr/bin?

Confusedly,
David

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