On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 12:23:57 AM UTC+5:30, Grant Edwards 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? I see on my system (debian Jessie aka 'testing') these packages installed: lsb, lsb-{base,core,cxx,desktop,graphics,languages, multimedia,printing,release,security} Dont remember the details but I think I had to install one/some maybe (just lsb?) and that installed all the others. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list