From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Hinsen Subject: Re: installing python 2 and python 3 in the same profile Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:37:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87y3j4l3xj.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> <87muzbzlqk.fsf@gnu.org> <38c1da8e-5af7-7e6d-f754-8dcf4a13c0b7@fastmail.net> <874llhwvmz.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42826) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ewPKt-0003kj-Fv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2018 05:38:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ewPKT-00070V-TK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2018 05:38:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <874llhwvmz.fsf@gnu.org> 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" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Yes. OTOH we use the =E2=80=9Cpython2-=E2=80=9D prefix for 2.x packages a= nd =E2=80=9Cpython-=E2=80=9D > for 3.x packages. Indeed. What a mess! >> This does of course raise the question of how this will evolve in the >> long run, but since so many bad decisions were already taken, I am not ... > Not our business I=E2=80=99d say. :-) Right now, no. But we might one day have to decide how to respect upstream recommendations that change over time, if that change has a potentially undesirable impact on Guix users. Konrad.