On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Aaron DeVore <aaron.devore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I recently started creating/maintaining packages for the AUR. One > request I've run up against is allowing users to relink > /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python2, but still have package building > work. Apparently the current policy is to use "python setup.py" for > Python 3 packages, but that breaks Python 3 package building for users > who relink. Using "python3 setup.py" fixes that problem. > > Could that policy change? I searched around for a conversation, but > couldn't find anything. Also, the policy itself is undocumented in the > wiki and /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD-python.proto. > > -Aaron DeVore > AFAICR users who relink python to python2 are on their own. This breaks repo packages as well, not just AUR packages.
