On 11/06/17 08:03, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote: > One possibility to counter this would be to replace the perl executable > with a wrapper that performs the check and prints errors to stderr. > Optionally it could also exit with an error code rather than continuing > to run the script. I'm not sure if I want this or not, but I'm leaning > towards a yes since exiting will make the error more difficult to miss.
I am very against this part (hook is completely fine). Having the perl executable be something other than upstream (and every other distro) provides, is not what Arch is about. I'm assuming the new location would be transparent to packagers (i.e. they would not need to alter their PKGBUILDs)? A
