This reminds me of Armin Ronacher's famous post, "STD stands for Sleazy, Tattered, and Dead" [1]. Basically, the point is that trying to collect too much stuff

This reminds me of Armin Ronacher's famous post, "STD stands for Sleazy, Tattered, and Dead" [1]. Basically, the point is that trying to collect too much stuff in the stdlib in the name of "batteries included" results in the packages atrophying and not being updated fast enough (or ever, due to backwards compatibility concerns). Though I know that the distro maintainers are just going to love this. [1]: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2009/3/2/std-stands-for-sleazy-tattered-and-dead/ http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2009/3/2/std-stands-for-sleazy-tatte...