Comment by Galanwe

The size of python packages is becoming an increasingly worrying issue.

A lot of maintainers don't pay attention to excluding test cases and artifacts from their packages, leading to ridiculous package size growth.

Last I checked numpy was close to 100MB, a huge chunk of that being test case artifacts.

Django packages all translations for all languages to ever exist.

Pandas bundles pre-built dynamic libraries with debug symbols.

Etc.

Most of my "production" virtualenvs are close to a GB nowadays, which is insane.