Bug 1707527

Summary:	[DDF] Should this say "The package is installed by default"?
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Direct Docs Feedback <ddf-bot>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Lenka Špačková <lkuprova>
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Priority:	unspecified	CC:	elpereir, mhroncok, python-maint, rhel-docs, torsava
Version:	8.0
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Description Direct Docs Feedback 2019-05-07 17:20:21 UTC

Should this say "The package is installed by default"?
From this it is unclear what version is shipped, however I can see that it is 3.6 that is installed on my test server.

Reported by: tristanhoar

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.0_release_notes/new-features#annotations:cf21f144-9fcd-4d12-93cb-05ec32a651df

Comment 2 Miro Hrončok 2019-05-13 07:36:02 UTC

Note that I got python3 command installed on the RHEL 8 available from https://developers.redhat.com/rhel8/

Comment 14 Lenka Špačková 2019-05-15 16:49:16 UTC

Hello,
Thanks for your feedback!

Depending on the use case, the python3 package might or might not be installed on the system - I adjusted the wording to reflect that:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.0_release_notes/new-features#web-servers-databases-dynamic-languages

Unfortunately, there are various scenarios which result in the package (not) being installed: selected choices in the installer, layered products, container images, Ansible, etc.

Comment 17 Tomas Orsava 2019-06-27 11:40:36 UTC

I have confirmed, using a custom repo with a modified package, that `fwupd` is the culprit that pulls in python3 into the default RHEL8 installation ("Server with GUI"). I've opened a bug for it: BZ#1724593.