> offloading it onto the users Not end users but distro maintainers. If you run almost any Linux distro imaginable, it has Python already in the distro. If

> offloading it onto the users Not end users but distro maintainers. If you run almost any Linux distro imaginable, it has Python already in the distro. If you want to try a version that's not yet even supported by the unstable branch of your distro, or not available on some PPA, etc, you need to be well enough versed in its dependencies to build it yourself. Alpha-quality software, of course, benefits from more eyes, but it mostly needs certain kinds of eyes.