Hi,

Any chance you could make the OpenBSD Python port / package do this 
automatically if there are no other Python installs on that machine?

 # ln -sf /usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/python
 # ln -sf /usr/local/bin/python2.7-2to3 /usr/local/bin/2to3
 # ln -sf /usr/local/bin/python2.7-config /usr/local/bin/python-config
 # ln -sf /usr/local/bin/pydoc2.7 /usr/local/bin/pydoc

Users having Python installed as a dependency as part of some other port / 
package, might not catch the message instructing them to run these commands, 
and as such might have to spend hours debugging only to find out their Python 
binaries wern't linked properly in the first place.

Yes, I know it's bad practice not to pay attention to everything that goes on 
on the screen, but it's also bad usability to not install a package when the 
user expects it to install.

I hope we can come to some sort of compromise here.

Thank you!

William

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