problems caused by exFAT not supporting symlinks

[kimusan]

When I try to install this on a usb drive (exFat) from ubuntu linux I get this when trying to install it the first time:

        Download complete (46 MB).
        Extracting python.tar.gz ...
tar: bin/2to3: Cannot create symlink to ‘2to3-3.11’: Operation not permitted
tar: bin/idle3: Cannot create symlink to ‘idle3.11’: Operation not permitted
tar: bin/pydoc3: Cannot create symlink to ‘pydoc3.11’: Operation not permitted
tar: bin/python: Cannot create symlink to ‘python3.11’: Operation not permitted
....

it fails like that for a lot of files and then decides to stop.

Same problem will show when installing uv as it also relies on makng symlinks.

exFat does not support linux symlinks, so I guess that is causing it, but it seems like this would have been tested on linux before claiming support - right?

[kimusan]

proposal could be to untar to /tmp and then copy the files over using "cp -rL /tmp/python/* ....." or use "rsync -avL ... "

[kimusan]

created PR to fix this and my other issue in issue#9