diff --git a/lang/python/Makefile b/lang/python/Makefile
index 6c43b3f6d..51268773f 100644
--- a/lang/python/Makefile
+++ b/lang/python/Makefile
@@ -59,80 +59,7 @@ endef
 define Package/python/description
 $(call Package/python/Default/description)
   .
-  This package contains only a minimal Python install.
-endef
-
-define Package/python-full
-$(call Package/python/Default)
-  TITLE+= (full)
-  DEPENDS:=@PACKAGE_python +PACKAGE_python:python
-endef
-
-define Package/python-full/description
-$(call Package/python/Default/description)
- .
- This package contains the full Python install.
-endef
-
-define Package/python-doc
-$(call Package/python/Default)
-  TITLE:=Python interactive documentation
-  DEPENDS:=@PACKAGE_python +PACKAGE_python:python
-endef
-
-define Package/python-bzip2
-$(call Package/python/Default)
-  TITLE:=Python support for Bzip2
-  DEPENDS:=@PACKAGE_python +PACKAGE_python:python +libbz2
-endef
-
-define Package/python-expat
-$(call Package/python/Default)
-  TITLE:=Python support for expat
-  DEPENDS:=@PACKAGE_python +PACKAGE_python:python +libexpat
-endef
-
-define Package/python-gzip
-$(call Package/python/Default)
-  TITLE:=Python support for gzip
-  DEPENDS:=@PACKAGE_python +PACKAGE_python:python
-endef
-
-define Package/python-openssl
-$(call Package/python/Default)
- TITLE:=Python support for OpenSSL
- DEPENDS:=@PACKAGE_python +PACKAGE_python:python +libopenssl
-endef
-
-define Package/python-shutil
-$(call Package/python/Default)
-  TITLE:=Python support for shutil
-  DEPENDS:=@PACKAGE_python +PACKAGE_python:python
-endef
-
-# Needs datetime
-define Package/python-sqlite3
-$(call Package/python/Default)
- TITLE:=Python support for sqlite3
- DEPENDS:=@PACKAGE_python +PACKAGE_python:python +libsqlite3
-endef
-
-define Package/python-gdbm
-$(call Package/python/Default)
- TITLE:=Python support for gdbm
- DEPENDS:=@PACKAGE_python +PACKAGE_python:python +libgdbm
-endef
-
-define Package/python-readline
-$(call Package/python/Default)
- TITLE:=Python support for readline
- DEPENDS:=@PACKAGE_python +PACKAGE_python:python +libreadline +libncurses @BROKEN
-endef
-
-define Package/python-ncurses
-$(call Package/python/Default)
- TITLE:=Python support for readline
- DEPENDS:=@PACKAGE_python +PACKAGE_python:python +libncurses
+  This package contains only the interpreter and the bare minimum for the interpreter to start.
 endef
 
 MAKE_FLAGS:=\
@@ -210,258 +137,30 @@ define Build/InstallDev
 	ln -sf python$(PYTHON_VERSION)-config python-config;)
 endef
 
-define PyPackage/python-full/filespec
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/bsddb/test
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/config
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/ctypes/test
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/distutils/command/wininst-*.exe
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/distutils/tests
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/email/test
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/idlelib
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/json/tests
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-tk
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/sqlite3
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/test
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib2to3
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-old
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/bz2.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/gdbm.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_sqlite3.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_ssl.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/pyexpat.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/pydoc_data
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/pydoc.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_ctypes_test.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_testcapi.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/__future__.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/_abcoll.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/abc.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/codecs.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/compileall.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/ConfigParser.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/copy.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/copy_reg.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/dis.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/encodings
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/fnmatch.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/genericpath.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/getopt.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/glob.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/hashlib.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/inspect.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/array.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/binascii.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/cStringIO.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_curses.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_curses_panel.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/dbm.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_bsddb.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/fcntl.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/grp.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/itertools.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/math.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_md5.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/operator.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_random.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/readline.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/select.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_sha.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_sha256.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_sha512.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_socket.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/strop.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_struct.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/syslog.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/time.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/unicodedata.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/linecache.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/md5.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/new.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/opcode.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/optparse.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/os.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/pickle.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/pickle.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/pkgutil.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/popen2.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/posixpath.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/py_compile.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/random.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/repr.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/re.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/sha.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/site.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/socket.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/sre_compile.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/sre_constants.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/sre_parse.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/sre.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/stat.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/StringIO.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/stringprep.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/string.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/struct.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/subprocess.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/tempfile.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/textwrap.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/tokenize.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/token.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/traceback.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/types.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/UserDict.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/warnings.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/weakref.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/_weakrefset.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/sysconfig.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/functools.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_functools.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/collections.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_collections.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/keyword.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/heapq.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_heapq.so
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/bisect.py
--|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_bisect.so
-endef
-
 define PyPackage/python/filespec
 +|/usr/bin/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/__future__.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/_abcoll.py
++|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/encodings
++|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/_collections_abc.py
++|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/_sitebuiltins.py
++|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/_sysconfigdata.py
++|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/_weakrefset.py
 +|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/abc.py
 +|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/codecs.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/compileall.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/ConfigParser.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/copy.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/copy_reg.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/dis.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/encodings
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/fnmatch.py
 +|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/genericpath.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/getopt.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/glob.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/hashlib.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/inspect.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/array.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/binascii.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/cStringIO.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/fcntl.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/grp.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/itertools.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/math.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_md5.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/operator.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_random.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/select.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_sha.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_sha256.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_sha512.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_socket.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/strop.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_struct.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/syslog.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/time.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/unicodedata.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/linecache.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/md5.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/new.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/opcode.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/optparse.py
++|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/io.py
 +|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/os.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/pickle.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/pickle.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/pkgutil.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/popen2.py
 +|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/posixpath.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/py_compile.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/random.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/repr.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/re.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/sha.py
 +|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/site.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/socket.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/sre_compile.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/sre_constants.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/sre_parse.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/sre.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/stat.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/StringIO.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/stringprep.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/string.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/struct.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/subprocess.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/tempfile.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/textwrap.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/tokenize.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/token.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/traceback.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/types.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/UserDict.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/warnings.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/weakref.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/_weakrefset.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/config/Makefile
 +|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/sysconfig.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/functools.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_functools.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/collections.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_collections.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/keyword.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/heapq.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_heapq.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/bisect.py
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_bisect.so
-+|/usr/include/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/pyconfig.h
++|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/stat.py
 endef
 
 define PyPackage/python/install
+	# Adding the lib-dynload folder (even just empty) suppresses 2 warnings when starting Python
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/
 	ln -sf python$(PYTHON_VERSION) $(1)/usr/bin/python
 endef
 
-define PyPackage/python-doc/filespec
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/pydoc_data
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/pydoc.py
-endef
-
-define PyPackage/python-bzip2/filespec
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/bz2.so
-endef
-
-define PyPackage/python-expat/filespec
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/pyexpat.so
-endef
-
-define PyPackage/python-gzip/filespec
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/gzip.py
-endef
-
-define PyPackage/python-openssl/filespec
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_ssl.so
-endef
-
-define PyPackage/python-shutil/filespec
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/shutil.py
-endef
-
-define PyPackage/python-sqlite3/filespec
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/sqlite3
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_sqlite3.so
-endef
-
-define PyPackage/python-gdbm/filespec
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/gdbm.so
-endef
-
-define PyPackage/python-readline/filespec
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/readline.so
-endef
-
-define PyPackage/python-ncurses/filespec
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_curses.so
-+|/usr/lib/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/lib-dynload/_curses_panel.so
-endef
-
 define Host/Configure
 	-$(MAKE) -C $(HOST_BUILD_DIR) distclean
 	(cd $(HOST_BUILD_DIR); autoreconf --force --install || exit 0)
@@ -496,27 +195,5 @@ endef
 $(eval $(call HostBuild))
 
 $(eval $(call PyPackage,python))
-$(eval $(call PyPackage,python-full))
-$(eval $(call PyPackage,python-doc))
-$(eval $(call PyPackage,python-bzip2))
-$(eval $(call PyPackage,python-expat))
-$(eval $(call PyPackage,python-gzip))
-$(eval $(call PyPackage,python-openssl))
-$(eval $(call PyPackage,python-shutil))
-$(eval $(call PyPackage,python-sqlite3))
-$(eval $(call PyPackage,python-gdbm))
-$(eval $(call PyPackage,python-readline))
-$(eval $(call PyPackage,python-ncurses))
 
 $(eval $(call BuildPackage,python))
-$(eval $(call BuildPackage,python-full))
-$(eval $(call BuildPackage,python-doc))
-$(eval $(call BuildPackage,python-bzip2))
-$(eval $(call BuildPackage,python-expat))
-$(eval $(call BuildPackage,python-gzip))
-$(eval $(call BuildPackage,python-openssl))
-$(eval $(call BuildPackage,python-shutil))
-$(eval $(call BuildPackage,python-sqlite3))
-$(eval $(call BuildPackage,python-gdbm))
-$(eval $(call BuildPackage,python-readline))
-$(eval $(call BuildPackage,python-ncurses))