So at one point in time, it would appear that something in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-4cadce5e79d38a63c...
pulled in python, according to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/FullExceptionList
However now it doesn't seem to happen, and python isn't being installed by
default in buildroots. Python is a pretty integral part of our distribution
and a lot of assumptions are made that python is there, even at build time.
I would like to propose that we add python to the Exception list so that it
can't ever disappear again. We list perl explicitly, even though its pulled
in via rpm-build (and a couple other things), so why not python?
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora