On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 08:49:10AM -0500, Thompson, David wrote: > Also, somewhat unrelated, package-with-python2 could add setuptools as > an input to these packages so we can remove all the unnecessary usage > of it in Python 3 packages.
+1 as it is often needed and harmless when it is not needed. Not exactly heavy either compared to the rest of the python build chain. Pj.