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laziness, impatience, and hubris  Re^3: Stupid question  by
aaron_baugher (Deacon) on May 12, 2012 at 11:50 UTC
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Re^2: Stupid question in thread Stupid question  Whichever
direction you link it, that would seem to present a problem. If
you're installing a separate perl because you want to leave the
stock perl pristine for the OS to use, well, the OS will expect
to find the stock perl in /usr/bin/perl. If /usr/bin/perl is a
link to /usr/local/bin/perl (or wherever), then the OS will be
using your local version, so you might as well have just
replaced the stock version with your own version, right?
Another thought: if you symlink /usr/bin/perl to somewhere else,
can you trust that an OS upgrade of the stock perl won't clobber
your symlink?  Aaron B.  Comment on Re^3: Stupid question  Log
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