Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> writes: > Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: > >> It is an unnecessary restriction to *prevent* users from installing >> Python 2 and 3 interpreters into the same profile. Any errors we see > > I agree. But the current question is not if we should allow people to > shoot themselves into the foot, but how much effort we should invest to > make this possible.
It hasn’t always been like this. We added a feature to anticipate conflicts that would happen at the time a profile is built. This feature now prevents you from installing variants of the same package into the same profile — this is what we want. Python 2 and 3 are not variants of the same package, so preventing their installation into the same profile is a bug introduced by that new feature. My proposal would require very little effort to implement. It is just a question of whether there is a more elegant approach. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net
