Martti Kühne <mysatyre@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 09:51:44PM +0200, Ralf Schmitt wrote: >> 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? >> > > another simple question: > why would you think this problem should not be resolved upstream? that's what I think. upstream in this case is archlinux. distutils installs executable scripts with the full path to the python interpreter.
