/usr/bin/env perl

[Kaare Rasmussen]

Hi

I use perlbrew and therefore change the first line of e.g.
qpsmtpd-forkserver to /usr/bin/env perl. It has possibly been discussed
before (?) but are there anything that prevents this to go into the repo?

[Peter J. Holzer]

In general, I think that "#!/usr/bin/env perl" is a terrible idea for
any script as it makes that script dependent on the PATH. That's even
worse for perlbrew and a daemon, which is usually started at boot time
and cannot rely on the PATH containing anything except the system
default.

That said, "make install" replaces the shebang line with a path to the
correct perl interpreter anyway, so it doesn't matter what's in the
source.

hp

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