On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:33:32 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > All in all (and unless I've missed something), the choice seems to be > relatively self contained. We would "just" need to promote to standard > python-support and python-apt. For reference, on amd64 the total > installed-size of the 2 is about 4 MB (not considering the *.pyc which > will be compiled on the fly by python-support, which I don't know how to > evaluate).
you can use "sys.dont_write_bytecode = True" in python >= 2.6 to disable writing of pyc files to conserve disk space. however, startup will always be slower due to the missing precompiled bytecode. mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org