[debbugs-tracker] bug#30437: closed (No “.guix-profile/bin/python” after ‘guix package -i =?UTF-8?Q?python=E2=80=99?=)

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> Hello,
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> I think it would work better if when installing address@hidden, 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.
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> Thanks for considering it.
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> Mathieu Lirzin
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> Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> writes:
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> > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 06:23:07PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> >> Hi Mathieu,
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> >> On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:52:41 +0100
> >> Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> wrote:
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> >> > I think it would work better if when installing address@hidden, 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.
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> >> For backward compatibility, the 'python' executable always has to be Python 
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> >> A lot of old scripts specify just "/usr/bin/env python" in the shebang.
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> >> On the other hand if your script supports Python 3 you know it.
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> > We do also have the 'python-wrapper' package which uses python3 as
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> Closing because it’s not a bug.
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> Ricardo
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