koobs added the comment:

These are a good step toward bringing the otherwise neglected Python build 
system back to the real world in terms of standard functionality, and will 
among other things, make life an absolute pleasure for downstreams and users 
alike.

"User-Serviceable" options are expected (in particular in autotools-based build 
systems), *not* a luxury, and have been missing from the start.

A complicated build system is not a function its feature-set or flexibility, 
but of the quality of its evolution.

There is also a distinction between the ability to customise the options of a 
build, and the defaults of those options. "Will no longer be a standard 
library" is a straw man.

These patches present only as a user-configurable extension to otherwise 
statically defined configurations that must be patched manually to modify. This 
is painful.

With my downstream (FreeBSD) porter & 
consumer-and-hacker-of-Python-build-mechanics hat on, I'd like to see these and 
more 'options' out-of-the-box.

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