On 08/31/2013 01:06 AM, Sergio Pascual wrote: > Hello, miy name is Sergio Pascual and I'm the currrent maintainer of > the scikit-learn package in Fedora. I'm in the process of updating the > current package from 0.13 to 0.14. There are some issues with bundled > libraries, some already commented in this list. > > > Some of the external packages are Python packages, under > sklearn/externals. These are: joblib and six. While I understand why C > packages are bundled, I cannot see the benefit of having bundled > python packages, instead of listing them as dependencies. Both > packages can be installed with pip (and via yum in Fedora). Because not all people install packages via pip or the package manager. Including non-standard libraries makes installation seamless across packages. Debian usually unbundles them which resulted in incompatible scikit-learn and joblib packages for the last release :-/
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