Re: [Fink-devel] Re: /sw/bin/perl

[jfm <jf...@co...>]

On Jun 24, 2004, at 1:02 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote:

> Most of these packages allow the user to override their tests for perl 
> by checking the PERL environment variable first. If we just have fink 
> set PERL to /usr/bin/perl by default (different default for perl 
> modules, I guess), then the problem will go away.

Right, most _ I just checked a small sample (half a dozen), and there 
was only 1 exception (docbook-utils).

I see a small inconvenience in your suggestion however:
The DescUsage in perlxy* recommends _ for good reasons _
to let /usr/bin/perl->/sw/bin/perl, so the user still has to remember
to reset his links manually every time he removes a perlxyz pkg.

If a post-remove script in those pkgs were to automatically symlink
/usr/bin/perl5.8.1 to /sw/bin/perl, the problem would be fixed for all
pkgs, and the user would not have to remember to reset his links
every time.

Jean-Francois