Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation

[Grant Edwards]

On 2014-08-12, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 8:53 PM, 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.
>
> Arch has a different idea of “base system”.  The base group contains
> the most crucial packages needed to run an Arch Linux system, and that
> is all.

That's true of Gentoo as well, but it includes Python.

> And you do not need Python to do so.

That's the part that surprised me.  It's been a _long_ time since I've
run a Linux distro that didn't require Python as a crucial system
package.

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