New python-base package has pythonic dependencies.

$ rpm -qR python-base |grep python
python2.6(_abcoll)
python2.6(genericpath)
$ 

This results in +10 packages and +20M in base build environment.

$ join -v2 25 26
ca-certificates 627751
libcrypto7 1723609
libgdbm 37745
libkeyutils 10072
libkrb5 1559459
libssl7 347120
python-modules 12534192
python-modules-compiler 916328
python-modules-email 1038947
python-modules-encodings 2143105
$