On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 00:26, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev <blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > Currently we have /usr/bin/python -> python2. Is it time to change that > to python3?
Probably a bit too drastic a view, but should we even be propagating the need to have a bare python? I appreciate it can be a convenience when 2 and 3 co-exist but the price for that convenience across the version change has been high. My preference would be to not use the bare "python" anywhere, so that scripts have to be explicit about which major version they want. It will make things a lot easy when python4 comes along! As to the convenience link in /usr/bin, I'd look to remove it and tell people that they can alias the bare "python" if they really, really need to, but that they have to make the choice to do so: the system won't be doing it for them. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
