[arch-general] not able to execute commands on tty

Frank frank.zimmermann.berlin at freenet.de
Tue Apr 26 06:03:07 UTC 2022


Am Montag, dem 25.04.2022 um 20:25 +0100 schrieb Dave Howorth via arch-
general:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:57:15 +0200
> Frank via arch-general <arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > #add Perl and Perl modules to file path
> > export PATH="$(PATH):/usr/bin/core_perl/"
> > export PATH="$(PATH):/usr/bin/vendor_perl/"
> > export PATH="$(PATH):/usr/bin/site_perl/"
> 
> Others have pointed out the syntactic problem here, but I would like
> to
> ask about the semantics. I would expect the exact opposite ordering.
> 
> There doesn't seem any point in specifiying core to override vendor,
> which overrides site. In what circumstances is that useful?
> 
> I can understand the other way around where the vendor provides
> something better than standard perl, or you yourself have installed
> or
> written something better than either.

I son't recall when I put this in my .profile, there's been an
anouncement to do so a while ago. However, as said this can be removed
since /etc/profile.d/perlbin.sh is taking care of this now.



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