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On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 12:23:57 AM UTC+5:30, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I just installed Arch Linux for the first time, and was surprosed to
> find that Python isn't installed as part of a "base" system. It's
> also not included in the 'base-devel' package group. It's trivial to
> install, but I'd still pretty surprised it's not there by default. I
> guess I've spent too much time with Gentoo, Debian, and RedHat
> derivitives which require Python be installed.
> I've probably used at least a dozen Linux distros over the years, and
> this is the first time I've noticed that Python wasn't installed by
> default.
> Just for the sake of curiosity, are there any other significant
> desktop/server Linux distros that don't come "out of the box" with
> Python?
I see on my system (debian Jessie aka 'testing') these packages installed:
lsb,
lsb-{base,core,cxx,desktop,graphics,languages,
multimedia,printing,release,security}
Dont remember the details but I think I had to install one/some maybe
(just lsb?) and that installed all the others.
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Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-11 18:53 +0000
Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2014-08-11 12:02 -0700
Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-11 20:13 +0000
Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2014-08-11 14:36 -0700
Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 09:35 +1000
Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-12 02:33 +0000
Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2014-08-12 00:18 -0700
Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation David Palao <dpalao.python@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 09:59 +0200
Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Fabien <fabien.maussion@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 11:53 +0200
Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-11 21:36 -0700
Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 12:00 +0200
Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-12 14:12 +0000
Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 09:49 -0600
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