blazerte wrote:

> Here's a quote from the Debian Python packaging manual:
> 
> "If a maintainer would like to provide the user with the possibility to
> override the Debian Python interpreter, he may want to use /usr/bin/env
> python or /usr/bin/env pythonX.Y. However this is not advisable as it
> bypasses Debian's dependency checking and makes the package vulnerable
> to incomplete local installations of python."

That reasoning assumes that the maintainer's Debian package would only be
used in Debian, and that it is best to work with Debian's own python. I
think that is limited - The flexibility of /usr/bin/env is particularly
useful when you need to support other distributions or unixes.

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