> On 29 Jun 2026, at 12:15, Chris Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

> In the interest of reproducible builds, builds intentionally ignore your 
> private python selection choices. Having builds run without random python 
> version a user might have selected, via their PATH, would be a nightmare.

Fair enough. I understand we should have a default version for, say, automated 
binary generation. But shouldn’t the user be able to override that system-wide 
default with their own choice? Not using an environment variable like PATH, but 
some sort of user triggered mechanism, much like what exists in FreeBSD ports, 
where you can specify your preferred version in /etc/make.conf. I thought this 
was what python_select was for: not only setting soft links, but also choosing 
a default version for one’s own python-dependent ports. But apparently it is 
not? 

Vincent

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