Redhat 7.3 skipjack Beta2- why still python 1.5x ?

[Jeff Shannon]

In article <3CB277E2.8060505 at greenroom.com.au>, 
matt at greenroom.com.au says...

> In addition to that (i promise i'll stop soon), it is a bit annoying 
> that whenever i install red hat i have to
> 
> rm -f /usr/bin/python
> ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python
> 
> because they believe that more of us will use 1.5 than 2.1.

No, they have no such belief.  It is simply that their 
administration tools use 1.5, and are broken under 2.x, and said 
tools all look for /usr/bin/python.  In other words, what you've 
just done (relinking /usr/bin/python to python2) has broken many 
of their admin tools.

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Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International