On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2014-08-12, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Grant Edwards <invalid@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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
