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Subject: Re: difftool uses hardcoded perl shebang
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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.