Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal: Python means Python3

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On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 10:10 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> No, we keep everything called python3, we just provide the "python" name.
> With python2 -> python3, one of the problems was that everything was just called
> "python" before. We are not proposing to start doing that again. All packages
> still need to eb called python3-foo, ale package still need to use python3-foo
> dependencies and all packages still need to invoke "python3" explicitly.
>
But if everything should refer to python3 explicitly, what's the
benefit of having the unversioned Python? I understand why it's better
to have python mean python3 instead of python2, but I don't understand
why it's better than not having it.

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