Currently scripting an installation of Python when bringing up a machine from scratch is a bit annoying. pkg_add has % syntax but you need to know the major/minor version, "pkg_add python%2.7" is ok because it's not very likely to change, but for Python 3 which still receives updates it's not so good - was python%3.6, now python%3.7, and it will need to be %3.8 later.
What does anyone think about adding a stupid meta/python3 port so that you can just do "pkg_add python3"? There is another way - pulling it in via an existing dependency (e.g. "pkg_add py3-setuptools" that you're probably going to need anyway) but it's not particularly intuitive so this seems a bit nicer. (attached)
python3.tgz
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