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Re: difftool uses hardcoded perl shebang

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 19, 2017, 17:08 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> In the meantime, pointing to the actual build-time perl is a workaround
> (but obviously not if it's being done by a third-party packager who has
> no idea where your perl is).

Is such a binary packaging scheme actually in use that deliberately leaves it up to the end user where/if a perl is installed and if it is an appropriately recent version? It sounds rather irresponsible to me.

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