A plea not to use uv-build for Python (blogs.gentoo.org)

submitted 1 week ago by bignose@programming.dev to c/python@programming.dev

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@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.

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[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It does seem hypocritical for Gentoo to complain about wasted time building things from source over and over because of another project's policies when the whole point of Gentoo is building things from source over and over.

Also, assuming any project that doesn't pin a specific version of a dependency requires the latest possible version seems backwards, as that's typically how things indicate that they're independent of any particular version.