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[James Browning]

On Monday, March 31, 2025 8:52:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time Hal Murray via 
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> > +Alternatively you can link your python3 to python.
> > +`ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python`
> 
> That "to" looks backwards to me.  I expect:
>     link python to your python3

Or, you could symlink "python" to your versioned Python interpreter.

> I have fixed buildprep to include the package that sets up "python"
> That's on Fedora, Debian, FreeBSD, and Alpine Linux.
> 
> buildprep has some python2 cruft.  I ignored it.
> Should we announce that it no longer works for python 2 and clean it up a
> bit?

Don't let Fred, Gary or the ancient Python 2 users hear that. 

> > +If installing to an SELinux enabled system you should perform the
> > +following steps. The first line allows systemd to see the units with
> > +NTPsec, the second allows the actual executables to run.
> 
> Should we fix waf install to do the magic for SELinux?

That should be possible to implement; probably not during release countdown 
though.