Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation

[Grant Edwards]

On 2014-08-11, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

I noticed that when I told it to install "python" it wanted to install
3.4 before I told it "no".

> 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.

At the moment, I only have python2 installed and have manually
set up symlinks so that typing "python" does what the rest of the
world (including me) expects.

-- 
Grant