Why was "gnu: wrap-python3: Create more symlinks." reverted?

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hello Leo,

why did you revert this patch? Having these aliases helps a lot when packaging python (extension) modules. Please reapply!

commit 187e9094f7fa79e52820b154bbac855f357553ce
Author: Leo Famulari <address@hidden>
Date:   Fri Jul 1 17:03:29 2016 -0400

    Revert "gnu: wrap-python3: Create more symlinks."
   
    This reverts commit 478e75b53bdf754cdf911226d37e517387f73c09.

diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
index b92746a..8bba7ca 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
@@ -370,8 +370,8 @@ data types.")
                   (lambda (old new)
                     (symlink (string-append python old)
                              (string-append bin "/" new)))
-                  '("python3" "pydoc3" "idle3" "pip3" "python3-config")
-                  '("python"  "pydoc"  "idle" "pip" "python-config"))))))
+                  '("python3" "pydoc3" "idle3")
+                  '("python"  "pydoc"  "idle"))))))
     (synopsis "Wrapper for the Python 3 commands")
     (description
      "This package provides wrappers for the commands of address@hidden such

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