Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> In article <lsb84u$21c$1 at reader1.panix.com>,
>  Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Apparently.  Perhaps theres an "enable LSB compliance" option
>> somewhere in the Arch install docs, but I didn't see it...
>
> Also beware that, unlike most other distributions and contrary to
> recommended practice, Arch has chosen to make Python 3 its default, that
> is, when everything is installed, `python` invokes `python3`, rather
> than `python2`.  So you may need to change shebang lines in scripts, etc.
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/python

Well, it only *became* contrary to recommended practice in response to
Arch doing it and everyone seeing the issues it caused :) Personally,
I'm glad they did. Lets those of us who follow "slower" distros (I'm
running Debian) get the benefit of someone else's hindsight.

ChrisA