diff --git a/packages/devel/boost/meta b/packages/devel/boost/meta
index 8968d56fbd..165d1ccd84 100644
--- a/packages/devel/boost/meta
+++ b/packages/devel/boost/meta
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.boost.org/"
 PKG_URL="$SOURCEFORGE_SRC/boost/boost/1.45.0/${PKG_NAME}_${PKG_VERSION}.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS="zlib bzip2"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain boost-jam Python zlib bzip2"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain boost-jam Python-host zlib bzip2"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="devel"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="boost: Peer-reviewed STL style libraries for C++"
diff --git a/packages/devel/glib-host/meta b/packages/devel/glib-host/meta
index 4f9e1ee2b7..46ccacd267 100644
--- a/packages/devel/glib-host/meta
+++ b/packages/devel/glib-host/meta
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.gtk.org/"
 PKG_URL=""
 PKG_DEPENDS=""
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="ccache libffi-host zlib-host"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="ccache libffi-host zlib-host Python-host"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="devel"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="glib-host: C support library"
diff --git a/packages/devel/glib/meta b/packages/devel/glib/meta
index 08d4e09aa4..efed62e0fb 100644
--- a/packages/devel/glib/meta
+++ b/packages/devel/glib/meta
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.gtk.org/"
 PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.31/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS="zlib libiconv libffi pcre"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain zlib libiconv libffi pcre glib-host gtk-doc"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain zlib libiconv libffi pcre glib-host gtk-doc Python-host"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="devel"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="glib: C support library"
diff --git a/packages/graphics/Mesa/meta b/packages/graphics/Mesa/meta
index 23c4e1a806..6879701736 100644
--- a/packages/graphics/Mesa/meta
+++ b/packages/graphics/Mesa/meta
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.mesa3d.org/"
 PKG_URL="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/$PKG_VERSION/MesaLib-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS="libXdamage libdrm expat libXext libXfixes libXxf86vm libxcb libX11"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain Python makedepend libxml2-host expat glproto dri2proto libdrm libXext libXdamage libXfixes libXxf86vm libxcb libX11"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain Python-host makedepend libxml2-host expat glproto dri2proto libdrm libXext libXdamage libXfixes libXxf86vm libxcb libX11"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="graphics"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="mesa: 3-D graphics library with OpenGL API"
diff --git a/packages/graphics/mesa/meta b/packages/graphics/mesa/meta
index 36fd38a007..3ef7e191a4 100644
--- a/packages/graphics/mesa/meta
+++ b/packages/graphics/mesa/meta
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.mesa3d.org/"
 PKG_URL="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/snapshot/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS="libXdamage libdrm expat libXext libXfixes libXxf86vm libxcb libX11"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain Python makedepend libxml2-host expat glproto dri2proto libdrm libXext libXdamage libXfixes libXxf86vm libxcb libX11"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain Python-host makedepend libxml2-host expat glproto dri2proto libdrm libXext libXdamage libXfixes libXxf86vm libxcb libX11"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="graphics"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="mesa: 3-D graphics library with OpenGL API"
diff --git a/packages/lang/Python-host/build b/packages/lang/Python-host/build
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..be9ccc37fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/lang/Python-host/build
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+#
+#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+#  any later version.
+#
+#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+#  the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
+################################################################################
+
+. config/options $1
+
+$SCRIPTS/unpack Python
+
+setup_toolchain host
+
+PY_DISABLED_MODULES="readline _curses _curses_panel _tkinter nis gdbm bsddb _codecs_kr _codecs_jp _codecs_cn _codecs_tw _codecs_hk"
+
+cd $BUILD/Python-*
+mkdir -p .objdir-host && cd .objdir-host
+
+OPT="$HOST_CFLAGS" \
+LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -lexpat" \
+../configure --host=$HOST_NAME \
+             --build=$HOST_NAME \
+             --prefix=$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN \
+             --cache-file=config.cache \
+             --enable-shared \
+             --without-cxx-main \
+             --with-threads \
+             --enable-unicode=ucs4 \
+             --with-system-expat \
+
+make PYTHON_MODULES_INCLUDE="$HOST_INCDIR" \
+     PYTHON_MODULES_LIB="$HOST_LIBDIR" \
+     PYTHON_DISABLE_MODULES="$PY_DISABLED_MODULES" \
+
+make PYTHON_MODULES_INCLUDE="$HOST_INCDIR" \
+     PYTHON_MODULES_LIB="$HOST_LIBDIR" \
+     PYTHON_DISABLE_MODULES="$PY_DISABLED_MODULES" \
+     install
+
+cp Parser/pgen ./hostpgen
+cp python ./hostpython
+
+# symlink python binary to python2 (needed for Mesa)
+  ln -sf python $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin/python2
+
+# replace python-config to make sure python uses $SYSROOT_PREFIX
+  mkdir -p $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin
+  rm -rf $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin/python*-config
+
+  sed -e "s:%PREFIX%:$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr:g" -e "s:%CFLAGS%:$TARGET_CFLAGS:g" \
+    $ROOT/$PKG_DIR/scripts/python-config > $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin/python2.7-config
+  chmod +x $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin/python2.7-config
+  ln -s python2.7-config $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin/python-config
diff --git a/packages/lang/Python-host/meta b/packages/lang/Python-host/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e5c6e7822b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/lang/Python-host/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+#
+#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+#  any later version.
+#
+#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+#  the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
+################################################################################
+
+PKG_NAME="Python-host"
+PKG_VERSION=""
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
+PKG_SITE="http://www.python.org/"
+PKG_URL=""
+PKG_DEPENDS="zlib-host expat-host"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="ccache zlib-host expat-host"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="lang"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="python: The Python programming language"
+PKG_LONGDESC="Python is an interpreted object-oriented programming language, and is often compared with Tcl, Perl, Java or Scheme."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
diff --git a/packages/lang/Python/scripts/python-config b/packages/lang/Python-host/scripts/python-config
similarity index 100%
rename from packages/lang/Python/scripts/python-config
rename to packages/lang/Python-host/scripts/python-config
diff --git a/packages/lang/Python/build b/packages/lang/Python/build
index 26088f8220..7d6f05c2b1 100755
--- a/packages/lang/Python/build
+++ b/packages/lang/Python/build
@@ -24,51 +24,15 @@
 
 PY_DISABLED_MODULES="readline _curses _curses_panel _tkinter nis gdbm bsddb _codecs_kr _codecs_jp _codecs_cn _codecs_tw _codecs_hk"
 
-cd $PKG_BUILD
-
-mkdir -p .objdir-host && cd .objdir-host
-
-setup_toolchain host
-
-OPT="$HOST_CFLAGS" \
-LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -lexpat" \
-../configure --host=$HOST_NAME \
-             --build=$HOST_NAME \
-             --prefix=$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN \
-             --cache-file=config.cache \
-             --enable-shared \
-             --without-cxx-main \
-             --with-threads \
-             --enable-unicode=ucs4 \
-             --with-system-expat \
-
-make PYTHON_MODULES_INCLUDE="$HOST_INCDIR" \
-     PYTHON_MODULES_LIB="$HOST_LIBDIR"
-
-make PYTHON_MODULES_INCLUDE="$HOST_INCDIR" \
-     PYTHON_MODULES_LIB="$HOST_LIBDIR" \
-     install
-
-# symlink python binary to python2 (needed for Mesa)
-  ln -sf python $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin/python2
-
-cp Parser/pgen ./hostpgen
-cp python ./hostpython
-
-cd ..
-
-mkdir -p .objdir-target && cd .objdir-target
-
-setup_toolchain target
-
 # dont use some optimizations because of problems
 # this fixes problems with expat (maybe)
   LDFLAGS=`echo $LDFLAGS | sed -e "s|-Wl,--as-needed||"`
 
   strip_lto
 
-#LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -lexpat -lffi" \
-#LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -lffi" \
+cd $PKG_BUILD
+mkdir -p .objdir-target && cd .objdir-target
+
 ac_cv_file_dev_ptc=no \
 ac_cv_file_dev_ptmx=yes \
 ac_cv_func_lchflags_works=no \
@@ -118,12 +82,3 @@ make  -j1 CC="$TARGET_CC" \
       PYTHON_MODULES_INCLUDE="$TARGET_INCDIR" \
       PYTHON_MODULES_LIB="$TARGET_LIBDIR" \
       install
-
-# replace python-config to make sure python uses $SYSROOT_PREFIX
-  mkdir -p $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin
-  rm -rf $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin/python*-config
-
-  sed -e "s:%PREFIX%:$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr:g" -e "s:%CFLAGS%:$TARGET_CFLAGS:g" \
-    $ROOT/$PKG_DIR/scripts/python-config > $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin/python2.7-config
-  chmod +x $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin/python2.7-config
-  ln -s python2.7-config $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin/python-config
diff --git a/packages/lang/Python/meta b/packages/lang/Python/meta
index a325e4d0c9..568bc7b861 100644
--- a/packages/lang/Python/meta
+++ b/packages/lang/Python/meta
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.python.org/"
 PKG_URL="http://www.python.org/ftp/python/$PKG_VERSION/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
-PKG_DEPENDS="zlib openssl libffi file"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain expat-host sqlite expat zlib-host zlib openssl libffi"
+PKG_DEPENDS="sqlite expat zlib openssl libffi file"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain sqlite expat zlib openssl libffi"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="lang"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="python: The Python programming language"
diff --git a/packages/textproc/libxml2-host/meta b/packages/textproc/libxml2-host/meta
index e98d4e804c..a4755f2d23 100644
--- a/packages/textproc/libxml2-host/meta
+++ b/packages/textproc/libxml2-host/meta
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
 PKG_SITE="http://xmlsoft.org"
 PKG_URL=""
 PKG_DEPENDS=""
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain zlib-host Python"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain zlib-host Python-host"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="textproc"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="libxml: XML parser library for Gnome"
diff --git a/packages/x11/lib/libxcb/meta b/packages/x11/lib/libxcb/meta
index 09a70be2e4..386078417f 100644
--- a/packages/x11/lib/libxcb/meta
+++ b/packages/x11/lib/libxcb/meta
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
 PKG_SITE="http://xcb.freedesktop.org"
 PKG_URL="http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS="libXau"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain util-macros Python xcb-proto libpthread-stubs libXau"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain util-macros Python-host xcb-proto libpthread-stubs libXau"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="x11/lib"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="libxcb: X C-language Bindings library"
diff --git a/packages/x11/proto/xcb-proto/meta b/packages/x11/proto/xcb-proto/meta
index 7b178be864..35e2b5d945 100644
--- a/packages/x11/proto/xcb-proto/meta
+++ b/packages/x11/proto/xcb-proto/meta
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.X.org"
 PKG_URL="http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS=""
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain util-macros Python"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain util-macros Python-host"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="x11/proto"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="xcb-proto: X C-language Bindings protocol headers"