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by lelandbatey 3421 days ago
It seems to me that Arch established their convention first, so why should Arch "change back" when they where first; why are others not "changing back" to Arch's convention, given that Arch's came first?

Well, the answer is that this is a silly discussion. Arch is doing what Arch is doing because Arch is intentionally forward oriented, sometimes to the detriment of backwards compatibility with the old school (and yes, a distro not having a symlink for python2 is at this point nearly 5 years into being "old school").
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srssays 3421 days ago
A particular convention has been adopted by nearly all distros, the Python project and the Python community. That convention is better than Arch's, because it is backwards-compatible with the large body of Python 2 code that exists.

Arch's change angered many in the Python community, and broke a lot of code. That Arch refuse to adopt the established convention, because it would involve admitting a mistake, shows a distinct lack of professionalism.

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StreakyCobra 3421 days ago
I don't understand why people always want to tell other people how to behave. The change was decided by Arch developers and impacted only the Arch distribution. Arch developers and Arch users did their job by adapting the Arch packages to work with this. I don't see any problem. If users don't like this choice, they are free to use any other distribution. If software developer don't like this choice, they are also free to not support Arch. And even this is not a problem most of the time because Arch users are doing the effort of adapting and packaging applications themselves on AUR.
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khedoros1 3421 days ago
> The change was decided by Arch developers and impacted only the Arch distribution.

Well, until developers that do their work on other distributions start getting bug reports as a result of Arch's unexpected naming convention. Should someone outside of the distribution expect Arch to change so that their software works there? No. Should Arch expect outside developers to adapt their code to work on Arch? No. Honestly, I'd expect the kind of people that Arch attracts to be used to dealing with little snags in operation, and for them to just dive in and fix it on their own.

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