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On 10/04/2018 06:51 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I don't know. Realistically, any decent distributor of Python
should include those optional modules, and I don't remember
encountering a Python that doesn't has them.</pre>
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What is the point, then, of making these packages optional in the
first place? Shouldn't by that logic a missing dependency rather
trigger a build failure <i>unless</i> someone enables a certain
switch (e.g. ‘--without-xz’), e.g. for special-purpose distribution.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Adding a note saying otherwise in the docs may pointlessly scare users away.
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Possibly. But not saying anything isn't the best alternative under
these circumstances.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Marcus<br>
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