[csw-maintainers] debian's python policy

[Philip Brown]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:26:11PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > "If a package provides any binary-independent modules (foo.py files), the
> >  corresponding bytecompiled modules (foo.pyc files) and optimized modules
> >  (foo.pyo files) must not ship in the package. Instead, they should be
> >  generated in the package's postinst, and removed in the package's prerm. "
> 
> What is the reason for such a decision?

because it saves a whoooole lot of space/download time.

the python package itself, would be reduced to 5MB from 13, I think Mike
said?