On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 11:22:06AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > Is there an official python recommendation for that, to quote at > > them, please ? > > That's a good question, but I would also like to see if there is a survey of > the major distros on the subject. I know arch has had python->python3 for a > long time, but I don't know what Debian, Gentoo, Fedora, SUSe, Slackware, > etc currently do. Does anyone know or have access to systems that can > easily check? > > In the past most had python->python2 because that was baked into the p2 > Makefile. Creating a symlink is not in the current p3 Makefile. > > -- Bruce > I think Arch followed fedora in symlinking python3 to python.
Gentoo is complicated - python is used for a lot of their build system and they have 'slots' for multiple versions. It looks as if they don't have a python symlink, but I guess there could be such a symlink while (re)building a package. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Python Ubuntu seems to be removing /usr/bin/python from a comment re 20.04 that somebody's desktop has it from the python-is-python2 package, but that his other systems don't have python2 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/04/distro-news-ubuntu-2004-focal-fossa-ubuntu-mate-and-other-flavours-released/page=5 Certainly, I've seen gimp-help suggestions to use flatpack for python2 scripting in ubuntu because of the absence of python2. ĸen -- The people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them: I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. [ Guards! Guards! ] -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
