Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "AW" == Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> writes: > > AW> Right, that's a good point. *Why* exactly do we want to go to all > AW> the trouble involved in making a switchover from 'python-foo' > AW> meaning 'the Python 2 module called foo' to meaning 'the Python 3 > AW> module called foo'? > > It's about users. Once "python" means python3 (which is a decision > that the python upstream will eventually make), a user should be > getting a python3 version when they type "dnf install python-foo".
What exactly is the use case for that, though? An end user who wants to use That Nifty Program should be able to do "dnf install niftyprogram" without any "python-" prefix. They neither know nor care about what language That Nifty Program is written in. A programmer who wants to use Some Helpful Library in their program had better know what language they're programming in. If they're writing a Python 3 program then they'll know to install python3-helpfullib. If they're stuck maintaining an old Python 2 program, then giving them a Python 3 library isn't going to help them. When Some Helpful Library for Python 2 goes away, then the programmer will discover this faster and cleaner by noticing that there is no python-helpfullib or python2-helpfullib package, than by unknowingly installing the Python 3 version and then having to figure out why things aren't working. So what category of users is this supposed to be useful to? Björn Persson
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