lang/python3* ports, __pycache__ included

[Marcus von Appen]

On 12/13/2016 12:55:40 PM, "Vlad K." <vlad-fbsd at acheronmedia.com> wrote:

>On 2016-12-13 12:36, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
>>
>>My main point was that if disk utilisation is something one wants to
>>minimise (at deployment), that one would need to be able to turn the
>>optimization knob off each time (or system-wide) and that that would 
>>be
>>a handy thing to know and do.
>Personally, I'd love if Python could specify a base dir for bytecode 
>cache, but it seems that's not gonna happen:
>
>https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0304/
>
>
>>Said another way, even if we (FreeBSD) de-packaged optimization files
>>which we want to do, that that *by itself* that would only save 
>>package
>>repository size and bandwidth, not deployment size.
>
>But in reality, what kind of gain/loss are we talking about here? I'm 
>guessing it's pretty insignificant in this day and age, even for 
>embedded?
>
Some systems require very strong audit rules, while stuff is run with 
privileged permissions. In reality, this does not
matter that much in most of the cases (read-only mounts), but 
nevertheless, it'd be a nice thing to have.

Cheers
Marcus