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Bloated requirements.txt Loses Buyers: Ship Four Scripts, Two Packages Instead

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Last March I almost shipped a product with a requirements.txt that had eleven packages in it. Requests, beautifulsoup4, a YAML lib, two PDF libraries, an image toolkit, and a few things I honestly could not explain. A buyer opened an issue before launch: "I just wanted to make a CSV, why am I insta…

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  1. 2026-10-26 23:12 · DEV Community — AI
    Bloated requirements.txt Loses Buyers: Ship Four Scripts, Two Packages Instead

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