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On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 03:05:49PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> When installing a non-devel perl, you typically get a message like the
> following on STDERR:
>
> Warning: perl appears in your path in the following locations beyond where
> we just installed it:
> /bin/perl
> /usr/bin/perl
>
> My thoughts are:
>
> 1) Do we really still need this message? It's very common these days when
> installing perl for the system to already have its own perl.
No, I suspect we probably don't need it anymore.
> 2) If we do need this message, should it be downgraded from 'Warning' to
> 'Note' and be sent to STDOUT rather than STDERR? Because there's nothing
> wrong with having multiple perls installed, and warning implies you're
> doing something wrong.
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Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
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