macOS 12.3 and /usr/bin/python. Status?

[Christian Calderon]

> You would not be able to make a symbolic link at /usr/bin/python because /usr/bin is a protected directory.

TIL. Is that something I could work around by disabling SIP?

And of course I would make a ticket but I’d also try to get stuff working locally since proper fixes can take time.

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> On Apr 17, 2022, at 7:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Apr 17, 2022, at 09:13, Christian Calderon wrote:
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>> I’m on 12.3 on all my macs, and I haven’t noticed anything broken in MacPorts because of the removal of python. If I ram into something that needed /usr/bin/python I’d just make a symbolic link to MacPorts python 2.
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> You would not be able to make a symbolic link at /usr/bin/python because /usr/bin is a protected directory.
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> If you do encounter ports broken by the removal of /usr/bin/python, please do not keep that discovery to yourself and try to work around it just for yourself. Please report the problem to us in the issue tracker or send a pull request on GitHub to fix it.