Fedora mulls its "python" version

Posted Jul 4, 2019 1:12 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Fedora mulls its "python" version by dezgeg
Parent article: Fedora mulls its "python" version

"Having used Arch Linux where this python -> python3 mistake was made early on, the experience was just endless pain with no benefit."

For one, Python 3 has come a long way since then and is much more widely used but even otherwise, Fedora's proposal isn't the same thing. In particular python3 RPM package only provides /usr/bin/python3 and python-unversioned-command is a subpackage of python3 RPM package that provides the symlink from python -> python3 and that is only a recommended package but NOT a strict dependency. So if you want to remove /usr/bin/python, you can always just remove the subpackage and create your own symlink from python -> python2 and not run into the same breakage.