http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1089065 http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1089065#c1 Dr. Werner Fink changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |werner@suse.com Assignee|werner@suse.com |bnc-team-screening@forge.pr | |ovo.novell.com --- Comment #1 from Dr. Werner Fink --- (In reply to Alexander Bergmann from comment #0)

#> rpm -qf /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/zypper.py texlive-filesystem-2016.108-21.1.noarch

#> head -n1 /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/zypper.py #!/usr/bin/python

The problem gets triggered via texlive-filesystem that has only a "Requires: python". Because python3 has a "Provides: python" it gets installed. Unfortunately python3 has no link/binary called python.

One way to fix this is a seperate "Requires(pre): /usr/bin/python" inside the texlive-filesystem.spec file.

I'd like to know why this has become a TeXLive bug. If python3 provides python3 then it should provide /usr/bin/python ... that looks like a simple approach of update-alternatives here -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1089065 http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1089065#c3 --- Comment #3 from Tomáš Chvátal --- There is no plan to provide update-alternatives for python binary, mostly because of compatibility concerns. /usr/bin/python and /usr/bin/python2 will be provided by python2 while /usr/bin/python3 will be provided by python3. The provides python is done for migration purposes only and should still let you keep the old python2. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1089065 http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1089065#c5 Stephan Kulow changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |coolo@suse.com Assignee|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |werner@suse.com |ovo.novell.com | --- Comment #5 from Stephan Kulow --- I think if the python scripts are gone for tumbleweed, we should resolv this as WONTFIX. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1089065 http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1089065#c7 --- Comment #7 from Alexander Bergmann --- I've just noticed that python-pip, python-setuptools, python3-pip and python3-setuptools are using update-alternatives. Why would this approach result in compatibility problems? Users that install python3 + pip on a system where they have python2 already will have a totally messed up environment. /usr/bin/python -> python2.7 /usr/bin/pip -> /etc/alternatives/pip -> /usr/bin/pip3.4 So it is also my opinion that this is a bug. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.