Some packages like libglade2-devel requires /usr/bin/python2: # rpm -qp --requires libglade2-devel-1.99.5.90-1.i386.rpm libglade2 = 1.99.5.90 libxml2-devel >= 2.4.12-0.7 gtk2-devel >= 1.3.12.90 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 /usr/bin/python2 Also, python-2.2-1 contains /usr/bin/python and /usr/bin/python2.2. So, it makes sense to also include /usr/bin/python2.
Added in python-2.2.1-16