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I know this is somewhat controversial for some people, but....

A member of my staff (Alex Stetsenko) has pushed an implementation of "beadm" that is in C. This is actually derived from an earlier C implementation we already had in tree, called "tbeadm", which we already had. So at some level, this consolidation of two different implementations into a single one. As part of this work, the tbeadm version was modernized and improved to provide i18n capabilities and to behave truly as a drop-in replacement for the python version.

As a result of this change, python is no longer needed at runtime by illumos for anything except IPS packaging. Sites and distributions which do not use IPS packaging (most distros don't, actually) no longer need to install python.