> > Should perl be in / or /usr? > > Now that is a good question, if only because Perl traditionally _loathes_ > being in /bin, for its own philosophical reasons. >
> Now, as a practical matter? WTF are the scripts written in Perl? Or in > anything other than sh? If they're intended for emergency use, they've got > some pretty fat dependencies, and should probably be launched from a full > rescue environment instead. Or the log files should be copied to some place > with more featureful tools available. Can perl be built statically and moved to / by the admin for this corner case? If not you should have all the tools to fix /usr in root and then if anything needs fixing via perl then you should be able to mount /usr or mount -a and have a fully working single user system to run perl from. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________
