On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:15:12AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > As discussed earlier on fedora-perl-devel-list, there seemingly is no > good reason to have this versioned suid binary along with "sperl". When > I asked Chip "why!?" all he said in response was "Symmetry!" > > /usr/bin/perl > /usr/bin/perl5.8.6 > > This seems like an odd reason. And I don't see any benefit to keeping > either versioned binary. Is this another strange upstream perl thing? > > Too late to remove it now... but I'm thinking we should remove it in the > future unless someone finds some good reason to keep it. It's pretty typical perl practice to be able to reference perl as a versioned binary. And I believe it's just a link, not a separate file. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 73 degrees Fahrenheit.
