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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hardened and python 3
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 19:01:20
Message-Id: 531F5D72.5080008@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Hardened and python 3 by James
1 On 03/11/2014 02:46 PM, James wrote:
2 > hello,
3 >
4 > Last time I researched a gentoo hardened environment, it
5 > called for the default of Python to still be series 2 of the
6 > software. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with
7 > a "Hardened Gentoo workstation" that was using python 3
8 > exclusively?
9 >
10 > Some various other packages still using python 2, but which are not
11 > formally part of a Hardened Gentoo system, are not of great concern to me.
12 >
13
14 I know of no problems using python-3.x as the default interpreter on
15 hardened. Most if not all of my hardened machines are configured that
16 way, although packages are still free to request (and many still
17 require) python-2.x.