On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:42 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/27/2010 04:21 PM, Stefan Husmann wrote: >> >> python is no requirement for Arch Linux itself. If you do not like it, >> just do not install it. > > Isn't pacman written in python? That would make python a requirement for > Arch then, right? The rankmirrors script is in python, but pacman itself is in C, and makepkg is in bash.