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| From | Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation |
| Date | 2014-08-11 20:13 +0000 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
| Message-ID | <lsb84u$21c$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink) |
| References | <lsb3g4$p0s$3@reader1.panix.com> <mailman.12862.1407783736.18130.python-list@python.org> |
On 2014-08-11, Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> 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?
>
> It would seem that such distros are opting to not be LSB-compliant?:
> http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_4.1.0/LSB-Languages/LSB-Languages/pylocation.html
Apparently. Perhaps theres an "enable LSB compliance" option
somewhere in the Arch install docs, but I didn't see it...
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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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