Michael Felt added the comment:

On 04-Oct-16 21:11, Zachary Ware wrote:
> Zachary Ware added the comment:
>
> Pip is a third party project, so if you'd like to pursue this please open an 
> issue on the pip issue tracker at https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues.
I stand corrected.
> Anyway, pip installs links named the way it does so that you can be (more) 
> sure that you're invoking the correct pip.  'pip3.6' will invoke the pip 
> installed with python3.6, 'pip3' will (or at least should) invoke the pip 
> installed with whatever 'python3' points to, and 'pip' will point to whatever 
> 'python' points to.  When installed in a Python 3 venv, pip also installs a 
> 'pip' link to 'pip3', just as there's also a 'python' link to 'python3'.  In 
> 2.7, pip is also installed as 'pip2.7' and 'pip2' along with 'pip'; again 
> mirroring the version tags on the interpreter links.
So, I guess I should rename my python-3.X packages python3-3.X so they 
can install side.by.side rather than only one or the other. Good point.
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> resolution:  -> third party
> stage:  -> resolved
> status: open -> closed
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