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 1 points 1 week ago

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.