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

[Fabian Deutsch]

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.

- fabian

[0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233106

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Fabian Deutsch <fdeutsch at redhat.com>
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