From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Symlinks to generic names Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 17:42:01 +0100 Message-ID: <20140202164201.GA13629@debian> References: <20140201082105.GA1181@jocasta.intra> <87zjma3r40.fsf@gnu.org> <20140202134038.GA5291@intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42843) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WA0AC-0005dL-Jx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 11:45:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WA08t-00051Y-Vq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 11:44:09 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140202134038.GA5291@intra> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 02:40:39PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > python3 -> python For python, the binary python is provided by python-2.7.6. The binary python3 (and python3.3) is provided by python-3.3.3. And there is python-wrapper, which installs python-3.3.3 and creates symlinks python -> python3 etc.. So for python, there is nothing to do - if you need python3, you already have it. Generally, we intend to be closer to upstream than debian, for instance; also to keep maintenance low. So I would be very cautious about adding symbolic links. Maybe we should rather remove those that we already have? ;-) Andreas