On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 11:04:23AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> Not really, no. In 1994--at the time that I spoke of--
...
> So again, NO, when my environment caused me no headaches in regard to
> the issues Rich described, it's absolutely not because any developer
> or package maintainer was look
On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 19:26:55 -0400
Dan Ritter wrote:
> If you're packaging for a particular distro, you know where they
> put it.
For systems that implement merged /usr you just use /usr/bin/perl. For
systems with optional merged /usr then your post-install scripts will
need to adjust the interp
Bill Bogstad wrote:
> I haven't noticed anyone calling out the issue of where interpreters
> are installed.
>
> Do I put
>
> #!/bin/perl
> or
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> or maybe
> /opt/bin/perl
If it's on your systems, you know where to find the right perl
(or python3 or ruby or...)
If you're packag
On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 12:36 PM Derek Martin wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 03:39:59PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> > My script exactly demonstrates the point I made: You can't
> > compromise a script (or other program) in the manner you described
> > when it takes care on its own behalf tha
On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 11:35:08 -0500
Derek Martin wrote:
> I think it's worth expanding on this just a bit. This IS good
> practice, and you should do it in your shell scripts--particularly
> when you need to execute system utilities but can't be sure in which
> system path they will live--and you
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 03:39:59PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> My script exactly demonstrates the point I made: You can't
> compromise a script (or other program) in the manner you described
> when it takes care on its own behalf that its PATH is set up properly.
I think it's worth expanding on
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 09:31:26PM -0400, grg wrote:
> > So to be clear, I was talking about a time long before the merge was a
> > thing, so no, it was not due to the effort of ANY developers or
> > maintainers at all.
>
> I believe you've got this backwards. again, ongoing effort is required of
