On 04/17/2017 06:20 PM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > I'm just thinking about how annoying is now changing the /usr/bin/foo > from the python2 to the python3 package, and in the meantime stuff > started to (build-)depend on it only for the /usr/bin/foo, stuff which > may or may not be easy to detect... This is just a case.
I've been using update-alternative in OpenStack packages for years for that reason: so that we have both python 2 and 3 implems that do not conflict. I don't see this as a problem at all, and would recommend others in this team to do the same. See pkgos-alternative-bin (from openstack-pkg-tools) if you want some automations, so you don't need to write the maintainer's scripts by hand (which is the main pain point). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
