In article <434AC69B.8040700@pkgsrc.org> Johnny wrote:
:  Mapping 
: that idea to current pkgsrc, that would mean, e.g. for the bittornado 
: package, we symlink /usr/pkg/bin/python2.4 to 
: /usr/pkg/libexec/interpreters/bittornado-python, then we make the 
: bittornado *.py scripts start with:

:         #! /usr/pkg/libexec/interpreters/bittornado-python

: This way, regardless of what other python packages you installed on the 
: system or what your PATH looked like, bittornado would always use the 
: python binary from the package named in its dependency list.  Also, 
: unmanaged scripts can do whatever they want, i.e. hardcode a specific 
: python binary, or use the well-known env PATH trick.

  Who creates that symlink, and what's the advantage over simply
making the scripts start with

	#! /usr/pkg/bin/python2.4

directly?

					yours,
					dillo