Today's #blog post is short but important: "A plea not to use uv-build"
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After seeing yet another dozen packages lose keywords on Gentoo because of a single key dependency switching to uv-build, I would like to plea on behalf of Gentoo users: please don’t use uv-build as a build backend. Just to be clear, this is not about uv itself or any other Astral tools; these are good tools with a nice and responsive upstream. The uv-build backend is one thing we have to disagree on. I’m not saying it’s bad; I’m saying that its benefits don’t outweigh the drawbacks.
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https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/10/12/a-plea-not-to-use-uv-build/
#Gentoo #Python #uv #PEP517 #packaging
Jesus Michał von Gentoo 🏔 (he)
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