Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation

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From	Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject	Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation
Date	Tue, 12 Aug 2014 02:33:20 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-08-11, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> wrote:
>> In article <lsb84u$21c$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>>  Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> Apparently.  Perhaps theres an "enable LSB compliance" option
>>> somewhere in the Arch install docs, but I didn't see it...
>>
>> Also beware that, unlike most other distributions and contrary to
>> recommended practice, Arch has chosen to make Python 3 its default,
>> that is, when everything is installed, `python` invokes `python3`,
>> rather than `python2`.  So you may need to change shebang lines in
>> scripts, etc.
>>
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/python

I noticed that when I told it to install "python" it wanted to install
3.4 before I told it "no".

> Well, it only *became* contrary to recommended practice in response
> to Arch doing it and everyone seeing the issues it caused :)
> Personally, I'm glad they did. Lets those of us who follow "slower"
> distros (I'm running Debian) get the benefit of someone else's
> hindsight.

At the moment, I only have python2 installed and have manually
set up symlinks so that typing "python" does what the rest of the
world (including me) expects.

-- 
Grant

Thread

Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-11 18:53 +0000
  Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2014-08-11 12:02 -0700
    Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-11 20:13 +0000
      Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2014-08-11 14:36 -0700
      Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 09:35 +1000
        Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-12 02:33 +0000
      Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2014-08-12 00:18 -0700
      Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation David Palao <dpalao.python@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 09:59 +0200
        Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Fabien <fabien.maussion@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 11:53 +0200
  Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-11 21:36 -0700
  Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 12:00 +0200
    Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-12 14:12 +0000
      Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 09:49 -0600

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