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Cc: Dmitry Sivachenko <demon@freebsd.org>, python@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/python3 symlink for python3X ports
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On 26.09.2012 13:03, Chris Rees wrote:

> Also, what do other OSes do?
>

I found one linux box near me:

{zamarashka}/usr/bin# ls -la python*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 Apr 17 21:20 python -> python2.7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 Apr 17 21:20 python2 -> python2.7
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2989480 Aug  1 09:40 python2.7
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    1652 Aug  1 09:40 python2.7-config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 Apr 17 21:20 python2-config -> python2.7-config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 Apr 15 09:13 python3 -> python3.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      11 May  3 19:52 python3.2 -> python3.2mu
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2954048 May  3 19:52 python3.2mu
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      11 Apr 15 09:13 python3mu -> python3.2mu
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 Apr 17 21:20 python-config -> python2.7-config