/app # pip install mysql-python
Collecting mysql-python
  Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip (108kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 110kB 729kB/s 
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    sh: mysql_config: not found
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 20, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-build-GEIJC6/mysql-python/setup.py", line 17, in <module>
        metadata, options = get_config()
      File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
        libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
      File "setup_posix.py", line 25, in mysql_config
        raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
    EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-GEIJC6/mysql-python
After installing mariadb-dev package (with mariadb as a dependency) it can find mysql_config and succesfully install mysql-python.




    

On other distros (debian based) its enought to install libmysqlclient-dev. I suggest to rethink the mariadb related package to allow the installation of python modules without the need to install the entire server. Thanks a lot!