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On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:30:44AM +0200, Sawyer X wrote:
>
>
> 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.
Now removed with v5.25.6-248-gee16020
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