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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
