On Thu, 2019-06-27 at 18:51 -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:


On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 at 18:49, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
But it also efectively leaves a "hole" in the availability of the "python" command for a single Fedora release - that's not good user experience IMHO.

 

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