Python has been a pain on RedHat and derivatives for as long as I can remember. The problem is simply down to the decision to package only a single Python versi

Python has been a pain on RedHat and derivatives for as long as I can remember. The problem is simply down to the decision to package only a single Python version. On Debian and derivatives you've been able to install distribution packages of multiple python versions (e.g. python2.4 and python2.7) at the same time. You lose all the advantages of a long maintained stable distribution when you have to install a bunch of hand-compiled packages.