Re: FC4 setuid executable changes

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:15:12AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> As discussed earlier on fedora-perl-devel-list, there seemingly is no 
> good reason to have this versioned suid binary along with "sperl".  When 
> I asked Chip "why!?" all he said in response was "Symmetry!"
> 
> /usr/bin/perl
> /usr/bin/perl5.8.6
> 
> This seems like an odd reason.  And I don't see any benefit to keeping 
> either versioned binary.  Is this another strange upstream perl thing?
> 
> Too late to remove it now... but I'm thinking we should remove it in the 
> future unless someone finds some good reason to keep it.

It's pretty typical perl practice to be able to reference perl as a
versioned binary. And I believe it's just a link, not a separate file.

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