Among those common packages are pil-py3, numpy-mkl, scipy w/ umfpack, curses, videocapture, orange, twainmodule, simpleitk, pymol, vigra, cellprofiler, cellcognition, pythonmagick, cgkit, scikits.vectorplot, nlopt, slycot, casuarius, ilastik, iocbio, vlfd, mmlib, pysfml2, pywcs.

It appears as though in order to get Flask this way, I have to either also get Pylons, googlemaps, etc... or I have to unzip an exe and install it manually.

This really does not look pleasant.

The "Base distribution" is a distribution of packages for some specific needs. If you need individual installers for Pylons, googlemaps etc. you need to look elsewhere.

Yes, that is what I gathered. I mist can't see this being something I would want to use.