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It breaks interrogation of the Python interpreter, since those functions are part of distutils. It also breaks creating virtualenvs if it relies on the venv mod
by Conan_Kudo 6y ago
It breaks interrogation of the Python interpreter, since those functions are part of distutils. It also breaks creating virtualenvs if it relies on the venv module.
- regularfry 6y agoYeah, it creates a bootstrap problem that wouldn't exist otherwise. I'm pretty much of a mind that meta-tools like venv shouldn't be written in the language they target, precisely to avoid problems like this.
- Conan_Kudo 6y agoWell, if it's a standard library function, it should not matter what language it's written in. The _intent_ is to make it accessible to everyone, and Debian breaks that assumption.