Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 20:13:18 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1407787998 2092 64.122.56.22 (11 Aug 2014 20:13:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 20:13:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:76070 On 2014-08-11, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:53 AM, 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? > > 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... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Somewhere in Tenafly, at New Jersey, a chiropractor gmail.com is viewing "Leave it to Beaver"!