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Author doko
Recipients christian.heimes, cstratak, doko, matrixise, r.david.murray, vstinner
Date 2020-11-24.13:33:44
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Christian, is it necessary to start with threats?

> Python could also follow the lead of other software like D-Bus
> and make the presence of os-release mandatory on Linux.
> Any Linux platform without it would be considered broken.
> I don't think it is necessary to impose such restriction on vendors.

Python *does* follow this lead with the distro module. And no, I don't see yet any argument why you need a second API for that.
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