python: dropping the .py files [was Re: Fedora 23 cloud image (and, for that matter, minimal anything)] bloat

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Fri, 2015-09-25 at 16:17 +0200, Fabian Deutsch wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Matthew Miller
> <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > > On contrary, if you insist on shipping the bytecode, why you
> > > don't drop
> > > the .py files? I see a lot of duplication all around python
> > > packages ....
> 
> Don't do that, it has impact on functionality.
> We did this for years [0], but you wonder how many components
> actually
> glob for *.py files i.e. to load plugins.
> Blacklisting files is not worth the space.
> 


Just as an FYI, rolekit does exactly this.
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