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

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Fri Sep 25 15:52:16 UTC 2015


On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:30:38AM -0400, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> Maybe we could utilize weak dependencies here. The python-foo package
> would have only bytecompiled files and would Recommend
> python-foo-sourcefiles. That way python-foo-sourcefiles would be
> installed in standard setting, but it would be possible to opt out of
> it.

Great idea!

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
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