Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation

[Grant Edwards]

On 2014-08-11, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid at 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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