[magnus@therning.org: Python distutils without python-dev?]

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On za, 2005-07-16 at 09:19 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:

> Is there a reason to provide distutils somewhat crippled like this, or
> is it a bug?

There is a reason: the same reason that build-essential and sshd aren't
installed by default. Aunt Tilly won't be needing python-dev (including
distutils), just like she won't need build-essential or sshd, so why
install it by default?

-- 
Dennis K.
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