- cross-posted to:
- python@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- python@programming.dev
@mgorny@treehouse.systems:
After seeing yet another dozen packages lose keywords on Gentoo because of a single key dependency switching to uv-build, I would like to plea on behalf of Gentoo users: please don’t use uv-build as a build backend.
Just to be clear, this is not about uv itself or any other Astral tools; these are good tools with a nice and responsive upstream. The uv-build backend is one thing we have to disagree on. I’m not saying it’s bad; I’m saying that its benefits don’t outweigh the drawbacks.
I have no idea why you would assume “bloat” is the result of a linear combination of reasonably sized packages when - whether you look at package size, lines of code, or file sizes on disk - you rarely find uniform distributions in real life.
It’s a lot more likely your “bloat” comes from a handful of packages or dependencies than tens of reasonably sized ones.