On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 5:09 AM Tomas Orsava <torsava@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If I understand what you're describing correctly, this is not a bug. > In the default state, /usr/bin/python should *not* exist, that's correct behaviour. If you want it to exist, you need to configure it using alternatives [0]. > > We considered making /usr/bin/python exist but be a noop, but that breaks a lot of automated (build) tools that search for Python executables (they often start with python, if not found search for python3, or python2, etc.). > And there was no reasonable default for Python in RHEL 8 because it sits between the past (Python 2 default in RHEL 7) and the future (Python3 default in RHEL 9). Either default would cause problems, often hidden and hard to debug problems, for some subset of our customers. > > [0] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/configuring_basic_system_settings/assembly_configuring-the-unversioned-python_configuring-basic-system-settings > But this won't be a problem in RHEL 9, will it? I don't want to suffer through this when we're not even going to have Python 2 in RHEL 9 at all... -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
