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Mon Oct 1 15:33:29 CEST 2012 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-October/121946.html

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since explicit is better than implicit, I *wouldn't* want to see
> magical side affects where merely installing the database from PyPI,
> or switching from Windows to Linux caused different behaviour.

I think that would be a pain. What you're proposing means that Linux
installations have to use the Python-installed copy by default
(because you want them to do the same thing as on Windows), even
though they have a perfectly good copy, often newer, of the database
installed on the system.

Cheers,

Dirkjan

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