Re: Why do we need Python sub-modules?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 09:31:57AM +0200, Adam wrote:
> > While I don't care much about Python, for other packages like perl5 and 
> > nagios-plugins, I'm glad someone went into the trouble of factoring out 
> > all the heavy-dependencies "standard" modules/components/whatever.
> 
> We are talking about dependencies, which are usually shipped with all modern POSIX systems, NetBSD included: libcurses, libedit, libexpat, libpanel.

This is not true. It is quite common to not have at the very least
development headers installed for most of them.

Joerg