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Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation

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Date 2014-08-11 12:02 -0700
Subject Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation
From Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.12862.1407783736.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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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

Cheers,
Chris

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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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