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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?


-- 

Vlad K.