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

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>

Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:53:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 30437 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30437: No “.guix-profile/bin/python” after ‘guix package -i python’
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:23:07 +0100

Hi Mathieu,

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:52:41 +0100
Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> I think it would work better if when installing python <at> 3, 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.
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