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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-factory] Switching default python to Python 3
From:       Todd Rme <toddrme2178 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2017-07-03 15:58:26
Message-ID: CADb7s=umbS796WJsMe1tnfdr_CNFiTUg9RTAfqf6GOo4d-ZCeg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Michael Str=C3=B6der <michael@stroeder.com=
> wrote:
> Todd Rme wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 5:49 AM, Michael Str=C3=B6der <michael@stroeder.c=
om> wrote:
>>> Todd Rme wrote:
>>>> Considering the upstream recommendation that we not make
>>>> /usr/bin/python point to python3 that others have brought up, let me
>>>> make an alternative proposal:
>>>>
>>>> Step 1 (these can all be done roughly simultaneously):
>>>
>>> While I appreciate that you're trying to accomodate all issues raised i=
n this thread at
>>> the end your proposal still leads to /usr/bin/python pointing to python=
3.
>>
>> Not unless the user intentionally installs an optional package. Only
>> people who want "/usr/bin/python" pointing to python3 would install
>> this package.
>
> Sorry, but if such a package exists surely at least one package mantainer=
 will add it as
> (recommended) dependency just to enforce his/her personal preference.


An rpmlint error could be set that would prevent that.
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