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


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