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Re: Proposal: Reorganizing Python for Python2 (and fixes for the previous proposal)



On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 10:14:17AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>       * we make /usr/bin/python point to python 2 thanks to alternatives

Oh gag. This was the same thing that's made perl such a mess. The major
problem (or one of them) is that packages that need python 2 can't rely
on /usr/bin/python actually being python 2 if you do this.

Cheers,
aj

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