Re: Problems with downloading from https

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

Ian Denhardt (2014-10-30 20:05 +0300) wrote:

> Quoting Alex Kost (2014-10-30 03:27:59)
>> As both python packages can co-exist in one profile, either python-2…
>> may be renamed into “python2” or python-3… into “python3”.  As python3
>> is the future, I think it would be better to have “python2” and “python”
>> (which is python3) packages.  Or maybe they shouldn't be renamed and we
>> can introduce a little collision instead by adding "…/bin/python"
>> symlink to python-3… package.
>
> Speaking as someone who's been on a distro that has python 3 as the
> default since 2.7 came out, and being a professional python developer
> working on codebases that often don't work on python 3, I don't really
> consider this a sensible default. I often have a symlink ahead of the
> system python binary in my path that points to python2. More
> importantly, I think it should be tunable. I *do* sometimes make use of
> having both available.

This is what you currently have: you can install both, and "python" would
be a link to "python2".

But installing 2 packages with the same name is not intended (to prevent
file names collision), so I think it would be better to rename one of the
pythons into "python2"/"python3".

-- 
Alex