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Re: installing python 2 and python 3 in the same profile
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: installing python 2 and python 3 in the same profile |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 09:37:25 +0100 |
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Konrad Hinsen <address@hidden> writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> It is an unnecessary restriction to *prevent* users from installing
>> Python 2 and 3 interpreters into the same profile. Any errors we see
>
> I agree. But the current question is not if we should allow people to
> shoot themselves into the foot, but how much effort we should invest to
> make this possible.
It hasn’t always been like this. We added a feature to anticipate
conflicts that would happen at the time a profile is built. This
feature now prevents you from installing variants of the same package
into the same profile — this is what we want. Python 2 and 3 are not
variants of the same package, so preventing their installation into the
same profile is a bug introduced by that new feature.
My proposal would require very little effort to implement. It is just a
question of whether there is a more elegant approach.
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Ricardo
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Re: installing python 2 and python 3 in the same profile, Hartmut Goebel, 2018/03/11
Re: installing python 2 and python 3 in the same profile, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/03/13