On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 7:41 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 at 18:49, Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> > What about postponing this change to F32? I'd prefer python2 to be
> > retired and gone from the distro first, and the symlink and
> > %python_provide definition only switched then. I think that having
> > this middle state where python2 is available but python points to
> > python3 for exactly one release will be more confusing that switching
> > directly to the final state where python2 is gone and python simply
> > means python3.
> >
>
> I think it makes sense to make the switch before we retire, because
> then people's expectations are changed ahead of time and they can
> adapt to The Future(TM).
>
Actually I think it makes more sense that F31 provides no /usr/bin/python. Then a lot of
things which depend on it can be found and fixed since they have not adapted to the Future
any other way.
We've been throwing errors on using /usr/bin/python in packaged code
since Fedora 28, so I don't think it's necessary to wait like that.
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