Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation

[Ian Kelly]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 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.

Because Portage is written in Python. Otherwise Gentoo would probably
omit it from the base system as well.