A Celebration of Gentoo

Gentoo, the bestest GNU/Linux distro, distributes a "news"
document along with the portage tree.

Several weeks ago, the Gentoo news warned that beginning
June 1 the default Python would change from 3.11 to 3.12.

I said: What the friggin' fuck!  That goddamned Python is
being updated faster than that cocksuckin' Microslop .NET."

But the update went well, thanks to the unparalleled Gentoo
portage.

However, since my distro is not pure Gentoo but rather a fusion
with LFS, I have to keep watch over any "stragglers," i.e.
any of the DOZENS of junk Python modules that have escaped
the ordinary upgrade channels.  But thanks to the wonderful portage
logging this task is very simple.

Yet, it may be illustrative of the stupidity of Python to
check out the number of ridiculous junk Python modules that are
installed and that some software (I certainly don't use them)
requires:

alabaster-0.7.16
annotated-types-0.7.0
appdirs-1.4.4-r3
autocommand-2.2.2
Babel-2.15.0
backports-tarfile-1.2.0
calver-2022.06.26
certifi-3021.3.16-r4
cffi-1.17.0_rc1
chardet-5.2.0
charset-normalizer-3.3.2
cryptography-42.0.8
cython-3.0.10
defusedxml-0.8.0_rc2
docutils-0.21.2
editables-0.5
ensurepip-pip-24.0
ensurepip-setuptools-70.0.0
ensurepip-wheels-100
flit-core-3.9.0
gentoo-common-1
gpep517-16
hatch-fancy-pypi-readme-24.1.0
hatchling-1.24.2
idna-3.7
imagesize-1.4.1
importlib-metadata-7.1.0
inflect-7.2.1
installer-0.7.0
jaraco-context-5.3.0
jaraco-functools-4.0.1
jaraco-text-3.12.0
jinja-3.1.4
lxml-5.2.2
mako-1.3.5
markdown-3.6
markupsafe-2.1.5
more-itertools-10.2.0
nspektr-0.5.0
olefile-0.47
ordered-set-4.1.0
packaging-24.0
pathspec-0.12.1
pkg.txt
platformdirs-4.2.2
pluggy-1.5.0
ply-3.11-r2
pycparser-2.22
pydantic-2.7.3
pydantic-core-2.18.4
pygments-2.18.0
pyopenssl-24.1.0
pyparsing-3.1.2
PySocks-1.7.1-r2
pytz-2024.1
requests-2.32.3
semantic-version-2.10.0
setuptools-70.0.0
setuptools-rust-1.9.0
setuptools-scm-8.1.0
six-1.16.0-r1
smartypants-2.0.1-r1
snowballstemmer-2.2.0-r1
sphinx-7.3.7-r2
sphinxcontrib-applehelp-1.0.8
sphinxcontrib-devhelp-1.0.6
sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp-2.0.5
sphinxcontrib-jsmath-1.0.1-r3
sphinxcontrib-qthelp-1.0.7
sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml-1.1.10
tomli-2.0.1-r1
trove-classifiers-2024.5.22
typeguard-4.3.0
typing-extensions-4.12.2
typogrify-2.0.7-r1
urllib3-2.2.1
wheel-0.43.0
zipp-3.19.1
zstandard-0.22.0

Lookie here:

ensurepip
pluggy
smartypants
snowballstemmer

Is this a child's birthday party?

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!


Holy shish kabob!  Junk Python hides its "simplicity" behind
a humongous mountain of helper code.

Give me C/Assembly and I shall move the earth in 2 lines whereas
junk Python would need 2 million.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Now cue all the incompetent losers to rush to the defense
of their beloved "savior."

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!