/usr/bin/python2 again
[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe, 2011-08-10]
> Why not make Python 2 point to /usr/bin/python2?
because instead of:
| oh, look, /usr/bin/python is a symlink, lets use different 2.X version,
| I don't care about 2.Y anymore and I want 2.Z by default. What? foo
| application doesn't work anymore? Damn Debian developers, and they call
| their system stable!
we'll get:
| oh, look, there's /usr/bin/python2 and /usr/bin/python3 binaries
| so it should be safe to change /usr/bin/python symlink, lets
| do that, ... Damn Debian developers!
a *LOT* more often (changes between 2.X versions are not that big
compared to 2.X-3.X ones
> Also, which distros have already done this change?
all that do not support more than one Python version at the same time
probably (and all that do not care about beeing nice to other
distributions, like Arch)
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