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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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's slippery slope. If you reason about performance in absolute terms, nobody will ever get things done. The reason we have electron apps is very much not because people are not shaving off 1.5MB off their binaries. This request to not use uv-build because of 1.5MB is just insane and out of touch for normal consumer hardware, and it only makes sense in the context of SPARC.