Yo Hal! On Wed, 02 Apr 2025 13:14:33 -0700 Hal Murray <halmur...@sonic.net> wrote:
> g...@rellim.com said: > >> I'll punt on any distros where it's not on by default. > >> I may try it for Fedora, but not until after the release. > > Any distros that do not have 'python' are broken, not PEP > > compliant. And a bug should be filed upstream. > > Sorry, I didn't quote enough context. > > My "after the release" was refering to fixing install to help with > SELinux rather than anything to do with python. You can't 'fix' SELinux. But have at it. > I don't know anything about PEP or how anybody thinks that python > should be installed. PEP == Python Enhancement Proposal. The core doc for Python: https://peps.python.org/ But even when you know all those, the distros have other opinions. And everyone keeps changing their minds. > I have tweaked buildprep for the distros I can > easily test so that it installs the package that sets up 'python' and > added a comment to indicate that's what it's doing. So several > distros think a separate package for 'python" makes sense. Of > course, that may be leftover from when python2 was still important. Sadly, no one rule to rule them all. Best to educate the user to debug his own Python issues. RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97703 g...@rellim.com Tel:+1 541 382 8588 Veritas liberabit vos. -- Quid est veritas? "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it." - Lord Kelvin _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org https://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
