On 24/02/16 13:09, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
JH> How should this be maintained going forward into 7.3+ in case
RH
JH> bring more into base...
They would be removed. If we set the version of the dummy package to
zero, they won't even get in the way if a RHEL package does start
providing python2-whatever, since the RHEL version would then always
take precedence.
I would be worried, though, that you'll have packages that were built
against python that are now trying to pull in and possibly run on
python2 unnecessarily, and possibly detrimentally if Red Hat suddenly
decides to push python2 packages out.
It seems to me that if the package is going to be built against pythin
then it should require python, if it has to be built against python2
then it should require python2. In neither case does it seem prudent to
be tricking packages into thinking that python is actually python2.
Maybe I missed something here.
Peter