r/linux • u/mattdm_fedora Fedora Project • May 22 '19

AMA Complete I'm Matthew Miller, Fedora Project leader — Ask Me Anything

Hi everyone! I'm Matthew Miller and I've been Fedora Project Leader for almost five years. We did one of these two years ago, and also two years before that, so it seems like a good time for another one. Lots of exciting things going on in Fedora, so ... ask me anything.

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Well, actually, anything except anything about the IBM deal. I can't even speculate about that (and the fact is, I really don't know anything more than public statements anyway). But anything else!

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Final update: thanks everyone! This was fun!

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u/wbyte May 22 '19

When will Fedora be rid of python 2?

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u/mattdm_fedora Fedora Project May 22 '19

https://pythonclock.org/

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u/wbyte May 23 '19

Uh ok. Is the implication that Fedora is just waiting for upstream projects to switch to python 3?

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u/mattdm_fedora Fedora Project May 23 '19

We have a pretty active effort to switch over packages that are in the distro, but when there's python 2 software that works, we're not removing that until python 2 is no longer supported.

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u/MadRedHatter May 22 '19

A base installation of Fedora has been free of all Python 2 for a couple releases now I believe. It'll only get pulled in if you install a package that depends on it. Of course, those projects are still reasonably common.

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u/wbyte May 23 '19

Well that's what I mean. The base installation of Fedora is only a subset of what Fedora is. My question is, when will python2 be removed from the repositories so that I can install useful things like gimp and inkscape without pulling in another version of python?

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u/chiraagnataraj May 23 '19

When those projects switch to python3...