“Proper way” to manage multiple versions of Python on archlinux

Question

So I have read this - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Python

And it is clear from this wiki that I can install Python 2.7.2 via

pacman -S pytho         


        

Answer 1

No, there is no better way to do this. The python symlink is part of the Python 3 package.

I guess changing this link won't break anything for now but it might be possible that some packages will depend on it in the future.