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