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On 09/29/2016 11:40 AM, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:38:43AM -0700, Sawyer X wrote: >> On 09/27/2016 07:05 AM, 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. >> A situation I imagine in which I would find this useful is if I'm >> accidentally installing perl to the system without realizing it, or if >> I'm accidentally installing it to a different system directory (as the >> example of /bin/perl and /usr/bin/perl). I can see how such a warning >> would be useful for me to see so I could either reconfigure with a >> --prefix or I could sort out the $PATH and possible system perl >> installations. > But I don't think the existing warning will help you in this case. > On any modern UNIX-like system, there will almost certainly be a > /usr/bin/perl already present. So any attempt to install another perl > anywhere, (under your home directory, under /usr/local, etc) will elicit > the warning that /usr/bin/perl already exists, which we probably knew > anyway. > > If you're trying to install perl as /usr/bin/perl and that already exists, > then presumably you *won't* get that warning, so the warning is only > helpful in the sense that you're on-ball enough to spot its absence. Anything helpful only if its absence is spotted is not helpful, IMHO. I don't see a problem in removing it.Thread Previous | Thread Next