On 2014-08-11, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: >> In article <lsb84u$21c$1...@reader1.panix.com>, >> Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: >>> Apparently. Perhaps theres an "enable LSB compliance" option >>> somewhere in the Arch install docs, but I didn't see it... >> >> Also beware that, unlike most other distributions and contrary to >> recommended practice, Arch has chosen to make Python 3 its default, >> that is, when everything is installed, `python` invokes `python3`, >> rather than `python2`. So you may need to change shebang lines in >> scripts, etc. >> >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/python
I noticed that when I told it to install "python" it wanted to install 3.4 before I told it "no". > Well, it only *became* contrary to recommended practice in response > to Arch doing it and everyone seeing the issues it caused :) > Personally, I'm glad they did. Lets those of us who follow "slower" > distros (I'm running Debian) get the benefit of someone else's > hindsight. At the moment, I only have python2 installed and have manually set up symlinks so that typing "python" does what the rest of the world (including me) expects. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list