Martti Kühne <mysatyre@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > question to OP: what is it you have there in your home directory and would > renaming the binary work for distinction? > ~/bin/python2.6, ~/bin/python-frobtweaks I'm using virtualenv, so I have a "copy" of the system python in my user's home directory. Judging from the blogs/mailing lists's I read this is best practive if you're developing with python. > > looks like a good measure to me, to just avoid naming collisions if you run > into problems. technically, you don't even need to prepend PATH to break your > python2 searchpath, since a custom-built binary in /usr/local/bin would already > achieve that. you're talking about that as if breaking things was my intention here :) Renaming would work, but I do not see that as an acceptable solution. The problem is the shebang and that should be fixed. I really fail to see why I even have to explain that stuff. Users should be able to install custom interpreters for their favorite scripting languages, and they should be able to also put them first in the search path without breaking system binaries that happen to be implemented in one of those scripting languages. It's easy to fix. Every other distribution I know of does this right. Why do the archlinux developers fail to see the problem here? -- Cheers Ralf
