On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 10:17 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > Far better to encourage people to explicitly use /usr/bin/python2 and > /usr/bin/python3 explicitly and discourage any use of plain /usr/bin/python Note the GNOME discussion here: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-November/msg00005.html One ugly part is that Debian Wheezy does not have "python2". That combined with the Arch Linux people who made /usr/bin/python = python3 is a terrible mess for people who just want random portable scripts. For GNOME we decided to just try to ensure python2 always exists: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-November/msg00017.html -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel