[Distutils] Idea: Positive/negative extras in general and as replacement for features

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Ronny Pfannschmidt
<opensource at ronnypfannschmidt.de> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> the talk about the sqlalchemy feature extra got me thinking
>
> what if i could specify extras that where installed by default, but
> users could opt out

If we reified extras
(https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2015-October/027364.html),
and added support for weak "Recommends/Suggests" dependencies
(https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2016-February/028258.html),
then those two features together would give you what you want (as well
as solving a variety of other problems).

-n

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