I don't see how that's relevant here, unless you interpreted my statement to mean we will be removing Python 2.7 in RHEL 8. That isn't happening, the module wil

I don't see how that's relevant here, unless you interpreted my statement to mean we will be removing Python 2.7 in RHEL 8. That isn't happening, the module will remain in the AppStream repositories but will not receive any support. Removing the system Python is prevented on RHEL/Fedora (with an exception). The package manager, DNF and YUM, are marked as protected which prevent their removal. You'd need to remove the protection file from /etc/dnf/protected.d before you can do that. Removing the system python would remove the package manager which depends on it, therefore the transaction is stopped. Using the RPM utility directly also will not work unless you a) pass --nodeps or b) list out every single dependency at the same time manually. You can test this in the CentOS containers with the following: quay.io/centos/centos:7: yum remove python rpm -ev python quay.io/centos/centos:stream8 dnf remove platform-python rpm -ev platform-python quay.io/centos/centos:stream9 dnf remove python3 rpm -ev python3 Best practice policy: use yum/dnf, not rpm for any package management.