>> The installer side of things the purist side of me doesn't like adding it toI was (trying?) to explain that my belief doesn't extend to only distlib here and
>> the standard library for all the same reasons but the pragmatic side of me
>> wants it there because it enables fetching the other bits that are needed for
>> "pip install X" to be a reasonable official response to these kind of
>> questions. But I pushed for and still believe that if a prerequisite for
>> doing that involves "locking" in pip or any of it's dependencies by adding
>> them to the standard library then I am vehemently against doing it.
>
> Nobody seems to be suggesting doing that, though.
instead to the entire toolchain.