Nick Coghlan writes:
The fact the existence of these *doesn't* readily spring to mind for folks not actively involved in Linux distro maintenance is a point in favour of why I think what Xavier is suggesting is reasonable:
I don't, and never did, think it's unreasonable -- sourceless makes a lot of technical sense to me in several environments, and I don't see any "ethical" reason to discourage sourceless in those environments either. Based on the evidence presented so far, I think adding to core is premature and the feature would benefit from cooperation among interested parties in a development environment that can move far faster than core will. But I concede I have no experience with this kind of option in Python to match yours or Xavier's.