Re: /bin/perl

To: bruce@Pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
Cc: debian-devel@Pixar.com (Debian Liste)
Subject: Re: /bin/perl
From: Michael Meskes <meskes@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 10:45:54 +0100 (MET)
Message-id: <[🔎] 199603010945.KAA18078@feivel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
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 agree that one should be a link, but the link should go into /bin sicne
/usr/bin is
1) the standard location for perl
2) the correct on according to FSSTND (I cannot see why we need it a boot
time before /usr is mounted.

Michael
-- 
Michael Meskes 
Lehrstuhl fuer angewandte Mathematik insb. Informatik
RWTH-Aachen, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
email: meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de

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