Brian C. Lane wrote:
> I'm opposed to this change. I see no reason to complicate things because
> some other distributions (Arch) have inadvisedly redirected
> /usr/bin/python to python3. This whole mess violates the principle of
> least surprise -- as a user of python what do you expect
> /usr/bin/pythong to do? You expect it to run the python2 interpreter.
>
> Any 3rd party programs that users install will also expect this, so this
> change will cause their applications to fail.
>
> I think the rules can be distilled down to this:
> * New python2 programs use /usr/bin/python2
> * New python3 programs use /usr/bin/python3
> * Leave /usr/bin/python pointing to /usr/bin/python2 for legacy
> programs
>
> There is no good reason to make this change. Leaving it as it is now
> doesn't break anything.
+1. We should just stop doing pointless incompatible changes. All programs
using Python 2 are legacy programs. So just let them use the legacy names
forever. New programs use /usr/bin/python3.
Even if, as this feature proposes, the change is made only for RPM builds,
that still means a lot of pointless work for packagers of legacy upstream
software that will never be updated to use /usr/bin/python2, let alone
ported to Python 3.
The Chromium build scripts used during QtWebEngine builds are full of
"#!/usr/bin/env python" shebangs. A lot have not been touched since 2012.
Remove /usr/bin/python and QtWebEngine will no longer build.
Kevin Kofler
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