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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

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org