diff --git a/configuration.nix b/configuration.nix
index 286ccf2..440719b 100644
--- a/configuration.nix
+++ b/configuration.nix
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 let
   home-manager = builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-23.11.tar.gz";
-  # python packages to include with python3
-  python-packages = import ./python-packages.nix;
 in
 {
   imports = [
@@ -150,7 +148,6 @@ in
   # List packages installed in system profile. To search, run:
   # $ nix search wget
   environment.systemPackages = (with pkgs; [
-    (python3.withPackages(python-packages))
 
     fishPlugins.done    # notifications for background process finished
     fishPlugins.fzf-fish
diff --git a/core/default.nix b/core/default.nix
index 068951f..e214dde 100644
--- a/core/default.nix
+++ b/core/default.nix
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ let
     settings = import ./../settings.nix;
 in
 {
-    imports = lib.optionals settings.printing.enable [ ./printing.nix ]
+    imports = [ ./fonts.nix ]
+        ++ lib.optionals settings.printing.enable [ ./printing.nix ]
         ++ lib.optionals settings.xdg.enable [ ./xdg.nix ]
         ++ lib.optionals settings.java [ ./java.nix ]
         ++ lib.optionals settings.dotnet [ ./dotnet.nix ];
diff --git a/fonts.nix b/core/fonts.nix
similarity index 100%
rename from fonts.nix
rename to core/fonts.nix
diff --git a/dev/default.nix b/dev/default.nix
index 86786fc..99eb1cc 100644
--- a/dev/default.nix
+++ b/dev/default.nix
@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@ in
     ++ lib.optionals settings.virtualisation.qemu.enable [ ./qemu.nix ]
     ++ lib.optionals settings.dev.platformio [ ./platformio.nix ]
     ++ lib.optionals settings.dev.latex [ ./latex.nix ]
-    ++ lib.optionals settings.dev.dotnet [ ./dotnet.nix ];
+    ++ lib.optionals settings.dev.dotnet [ ./dotnet.nix ]
+    ++ lib.optionals settings.dev.python3.enable [ ./python3.nix ];
 }
diff --git a/dev/python3.nix b/dev/python3.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e63fa24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev/python3.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{ pkgs, config, lib, ... }:
+let
+    settings = import ./../settings.nix;
+in
+{
+    environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
+        (python3.withPackages(settings.dev.python3.packages))
+    ];
+}
diff --git a/python-packages.nix b/python-packages.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 77f2953..0000000
--- a/python-packages.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-ps: with ps;
-[
-  pandas
-  requests
-  pygments
-  tkinter
-  numpy
-  setuptools
-  youtube-dl
-  pip
-  setuptools
-  ipykernel
-  scipy
-]
diff --git a/settings.nix b/settings.nix
index 335eb6b..48ab805 100644
--- a/settings.nix
+++ b/settings.nix
@@ -28,6 +28,21 @@ with import <nixpkgs> {}; {
         platformio = true;
         latex = true;
         dotnet = false;
+        python3 = {
+            enable = true;
+            packages = ps: with ps; [
+                pandas
+                requests
+                pygments
+                tkinter
+                numpy
+                setuptools
+                youtube-dl
+                pip
+                ipykernel
+                scipy
+            ];
+        };
 
         lsp = {
             enable = true;