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From: Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: Re: ports/109550 lang/python25 does not install
/usr/local/bin/python
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:54:27 -0500
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This is no longer an issue per sae since the change of
PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION to 2.5 means that lang/python25 does now
install the symlink to python.
The root problem still remains, it's just been moved. now
lang/python24 won't install a symlink to python if it's the only
version of python installed.
This is probably more of a documentation or perhaps POLA violation
though. In order to install multiple versions simultaniously only
PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION gets the symlink. One might reasonably expect
(without intimate knowledge of the ports system) lang/python24 to
install a symlink to /usr/local/bin/python if no such symlink
exists...but then how do you handle when another port pulls in
lang/python25, especially when that *is* the expected and default
version? Replacing the symlink will definitely change the expected
behavior of the system from the user's standpoint...and not replacing
the symlink causes a situation that the ports tree can't really allow
for.
We could set up the python ports to be self-documenting, perhaps by
making it explicit through output when you type make install in
lang/python2[3|4|5] that these are utility ports and will not install
a symlink at all, and that lang/python together with
PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION in /etc/make.conf (which defaults to 2.5) is
the way to install python and get the symlink?
Thoughts?
--=20
Thanks,
Josh Paetzel
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