On Arch the 'gvim' package also includes a more featureful console vim, including python (2, not 3) support built-in. The downside is that the dependencies for

On Arch the 'gvim' package also includes a more featureful console vim, including python (2, not 3) support built-in. The downside is that the dependencies for gvim include GTK and a good chunk of X11. If you do need a console-only vim on arch, it's probably best to build it by hand as you did, since the PKGBUILD in abs for the vim/gvim/vim-runtime set of packages doesn't lend itself well to custom builds.