On 08/21/2016 11:34 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 09:34:17 -0400
> fsmithred <fsmithred@???> wrote:
>
>> On 08/21/2016 02:57 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
>>
>>>> What do you mean by "default"? There is no default (other than
>>>> between versions of python 2 and between versions of python 3),
>>>> these two are fully coinstallable,
>>>
>>> When you do a plain vanilla, follow every default installation of
>>> Devuan, which gets installed:
>>>
>>> 1. Python 2?
>>> 2. Python 3?
>>> 3. Python 2 and 3?
>>> 4. Neither?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> You get both python2.7 and python3.4 with the default desktop install
>> of devuan beta. I guess the default version would be the one that
>> /usr/bin/python points to, which is currently 2.7.
>
> I'm gonna ask a dumb and repetitive question, just so I don't make a
> dumb and messy mistake...
>
> In the preceding paragraph, do you mean that both 2.whatever and
> 3.whatever are **installed on the disk and ready to run** when you
> install Devuan and agree with all the defaults during installation?
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>

Yes, they're both installed and ready to run. Which one runs depends on
which one of those symlinks you call. You can run 'python2' or 'python3'
to get the respective versions, or you can just run 'python' and right
now, you'll get python2.

-fsr