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The way I have always understood it - the Python that RedHat supplies is intended for it's scripts. If we install our own packages or remove any packages, then
by solarengineer 5y ago
The way I have always understood it - the Python that RedHat supplies is intended for it's scripts. If we install our own packages or remove any packages, then the risk destabilising the system. I have seen situations where people have removed python packages that resulted in yum no longer working, for e.g.
Hence, I have always (including from the RHEL 6.x days) provided my own local python version by compiling and packing as a custom rpm. I now use venv to do the same.
- Un1corn 5y agoActually RedHat no longer ships Python since RHEL 8, instead they have platform-python for internal use of the operating system and you need to explicitly install the Python version you want
- mroche 5y agoThis is a RHEL 8 only feature, RHEL 9 will have a global python3. Whether alternative version are offered as modules or as side-by-side installs like in Fedora, I do not know. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/search?terms=python%5B2-3%5D.%28%5B5-9%5D%7C%5B0-9%5D%5B0-9%5D%29&type=package&match=regexp https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/search?terms=python%5B2-...