Am 14.01.19 um 23:33 schrieb Rex Dieter: > Reindl Harald wrote: > >>>>> Are you saying nothing in rhel8 provides /usr/bin/python ? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Nothing provides it. The reason given: nobody could agree what to do >>>> here[1]. >>> >>> That is... unfortunate (and silly imho) >> >> no, it just follows fedora where /usr/bin/python is deprcated and in the >> future not available as symlink without manually intervention - don't >> forget the lifetime of RHEL8! > > I disagreed removing it in fedora was a good idea, the same holds here. well, the real problem is Python itself and using it for important system tools! what happens when Python4 comes up and how many decades will it take until existing software works with it? after seeing what happende with KDE5 and GNOME3 - both not learning from the KDE4 catastrophe years ago i have not much hope than Python learned from it's history that you can't bring a completly BC incomaptible major version and the world has to deal with it upgrade PHP 5.6 to 7.3 is a no-brainer compared to python2-python3 _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx