Hello,
Just as a small reference since I raised some doubts and questions in Buildroot community on this: there has been also some troubles to understand the correctness or not there (as I found some packages with problems due to this source-less management) and this then sparked, besides discussions in the Buildroot mailing list (roughly end of July / beginning of August if someone interested searching there), also an issue to the Python community, which albeit some discussion I think never arrived to a concrete conclusion. This is the issue: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/95827 (see also the linked one maybe)

These are just my 2 cents to this discussion, then of course the Python experts will probably chime in and describe the official/discussed position of Yocto regarding to this, but just felt like mentioning that although Buildroot is somehow offering this right now (and likely mostly works as well!), it's not really a so clean and/or agreed solution.

Cheers,
Federico

Il giorno dom 13 nov 2022 alle ore 13:55 Yishai Jaffe <yishai1999@...> ha scritto:

Hi,
I was wondering if there has been talk about support for source-less python on an image. Installing py and pyc files doubles the size of python on the rootfs. I can imagine this being implemented as an image feature.
I know that in buildroot it is supported.
Was this discussed and decided against? Is this an open issue?
I have a working patch that implements this. I can submit it for review.

Thanks,
Yishai Jaffe
Yishai Jaffe