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

[Christopher Meng]

On 9/25/15, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 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.

Just my 2 cents here, I'd seek another solution for this but
implemented as a plugin or an option of dnf, whereas introducing new
subpkg of large amount of packages sounds tedious to me.

For example define a new kind of file as %cache in %files, and process
them like find-lang, then let users decide whether files marked as
%cache will be installed in default or not.

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Yours sincerely,
Christopher Meng

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