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> The idea that we should then never use `python` to mean `python3` is just so backwards.

I did not present any such idea. I presented a sane migration path to where `python` means `python3`.

> ...it was then ratified as the correct way to do things because the upstream project agreed with the core idea.

No. It was because the upstream project had their hand forced and are pragmatic about these things.

> I don't really see why I should have to do this manually?

In my proposal for a sane migration path to the ideal? You wouldn't have to do it manually. The distribution would do it. As a user you'd be able to override it to speed up the migration for yourself if you chose; that's all.

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I chose to run a bleeding edge distro to be on the bleeding edge. Requiring me to make the changes to be on the bleeding edge manually makes no sense.

Expecting that is as weird as expecting super stable LTS releases to run the latest-and-greatest of everything.

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> Requiring me to make the changes to be on the bleeding edge manually makes no sense.

Which part of "You wouldn't have to do it manually" do you not understand?

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Which part of "I want it now, not in the future" do you not understand?

> In my proposal for a sane migration path to the ideal? You wouldn't have to do it manually. The distribution would do it. As a user you'd be able to override it to speed up the migration for yourself if you chose; that's all.

I want to speed up the migration for everything - that's why I run Arch. That 'override' is a manual step I don't want to have to do.