[CentOS-devel] RHEL 8, and potentially CentOS 8, lack "/usr/bin/python"

Mon May 13 18:28:25 UTC 2019
Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com>

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 2:15 PM Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/12/19 2:53 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I've been running into this with RHEL 6 and CentOS 6 backports
> > and on Fedora 30 where /usr/bin/python points to /usr/bin/python3. The
>
> That should not be the case in Fedora as far as I know.
>
> /usr/bin/python in fedora (29+) is owned by the
> python-unversioned-command package, which is a subpackage of python2 and
> points /usr/bin/python to python2.
>
> kevin

You're right! I thought it had been changed, along the switch of so
many packages to use python3 by default. But it's still python2, even
in rawhide.