Re: Vendors Considered Evil (Re: Perl use over NFS)

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From: Tom Christiansen
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 19:26

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From the keyboard of dave@nakiska.ucs.ualberta.ca (David Ross):
:No no no no no.  Don't put ANYTHING in /usr/{bin,etc,lib,man} - put all  
:locally installed modifications in /usr/local!  Don't even put symbolic  
:links in /usr/bin!  It's more work for you, it's confusing for the users  
:when you do an upgrade and you forget to recreate a link, and it's  
:completely unnecessary if you are consistent!  

It's Evil of the vendor to touch things that they didn't lay down.
Why don't more people complain bitterly about this?

:Perl is not a standard UNIX distribution - don't assume it is.  

It's hard to say what a standard UNIX distribution, is, don't you think?

:All perl  
:scripts should start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl!  

Aha!  You are attempting to enforce an arbitrary a standard
as the next guy.  It's not like this all over.  For example, at the
University of Wisconsin, we have /usr/uw and /usr/misc, but no
/usr/local, except on a very few machines, and these would have 
/usr/local/program, not /usr/local/bin/program.

--tom

-- 
    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist

    "The road to hell is paved with melting snowballs."
		--Larry Wall in  <1992Jul2.222039.26476@netlabs.com>

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