[witty_username]

> -30 copies of CPython (just the executable, of course: that's all you counted)

I checked with ldd; it doesn't have any other systemd dependencies as far as I can see.

I'm saying relative to disk space today which is on the magnitude of hundreds of gigabytes; the disk usage is not a concern.

[qwertyuiop924]

To my knowledge, CPython is the only piece of software on that list that has its own shared libraries.

And yes, disk usage is a concern. Because those kilobytes add up fast, and I've only got so much space.

And finally, the point isn't merely that it takes up disk: the point is that it's worthless. The old solution to that problem, having init set locale on boot from a config file, worked fine. I don't mind disk use that much. But I do mind pointless software.

All code has bugs: to minimize bugs, write less code.