On April 15, 2019 9:03:10 PM CDT, "Douglas R. Reno via lfs-dev" <[email protected]> wrote: > >On 4/15/19 8:57 PM, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: >> I am sure that there are reasons for not doing this but I've noticed, >> as a result of Xen no longer needing Python 2, that there isn't a >> bare `python` installed within LFS. >> >> Start of the xen-devel thread detailing this is here: >> >> >https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2019-04/msg00996.html >> >> >> Should there be a note about how to create one, including a note >> about Pythons 2 and 3 in the LFS Book, now that we have have >> to have Python3 just to compile Glibc. > >I believe that we did this because most applications still call >/usr/bin/python and expect it to be python2. You could do a symlink to >python3 as /usr/bin/python as a temporary solution (I have to use that >for 'htop', which I build at the end of LFS, and then I remove the >symlink to prevent issues with Python2's installation).
No, Arch links python->Python3 which the developers say explicitly not to do. Don't do that. That is one of my long-standing complaints about Arch. :-) --DJ -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
