bug#30437: No “.guix-profile/bin/python” after ‘guix package -i python’

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 06:23:07PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
>> Hi Mathieu,
>> 
>> On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:52:41 +0100
>> Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> > I think it would work better if when installing address@hidden, a ‘python’
>> > executable would be available in the PATH.  Maybe there is a technical
>> > reason for not doing so, but I find its absence rather confusing.
>> 
>> For backward compatibility, the 'python' executable always has to be Python 
>> 2.
>> 
>> A lot of old scripts specify just "/usr/bin/env python" in the shebang.
>> 
>> On the other hand if your script supports Python 3 you know it.
>> 
>
> We do also have the 'python-wrapper' package which uses python3 as
> python

Closing because it’s not a bug.

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Ricardo

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