Re: F29 System Wide Change: Move /usr/bin/python into a separate package

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I completely agree here. /usr/bin/python should go when python2 itself
will be removed from Fedora. For me this change is just an unnecessary
additional change which will probably annoy users. And if the solution
to get /usr/bin/python back is to install that additional package: 95%
(I guess) of users will install and forget about that topic until we
remove python2 itself.

Greetings
Christian

On 05/23/2018 08:36 PM, Ben Cotton wrote:
> I don't have any objection to moving `/usr/bin/python` into a separate
> package, but only if it's installed every time python2 is installed.
> I'm less concerned about breaking Fedora packages, because we have
> ways of checking and fixing those (do your package fail to build?
> Better fix it!) My concern is all of the user scripts and other
> non-Fedora-repo packages that might break if `/usr/bin/python` is no
> longer there. Users will blame Fedora, regardless of whether it's our
> "fault".
>
> And so if the python symlink is a separate package that always gets
> installed alongside python2, then is there really any benefit to this
> change? Users are already going to have a lot of things that stop
> working when python2 goes away, so this seems like we're creating a
> second breakage unnecessarily. (One could argue that breaking things
> now gives people more awareness of what relies on python2 so that they
> have time to port to python3. I'm not sure how realistic that scenario
> actually is.)
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