On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:57 PM, PJ Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: >> So, we should not remove the links for external packages until >> somebody traverses those links? But as soon as somebody asks for those >> links, we should remove them? In fact before we give them the link? > > I'm saying that if someone objects to the presence of links they > don't actually use, they are speaking nonsense. Might as well ask to > ban all packages from PyPI that they don't personally like -- it's the > same request. Nobody is forcing you to depend on packages that don't > host on PyPI, so there is no point to the censorship. > > If you don't use the links, you can't argue that their presence is > causing you harm.
Externally hosted files are a real world actual problem. We can only solve it by not having externally hosted files. This discussion has since a long time gone past reason into pure stop energy. I'm not wasting more energy on it. //Lennart _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig