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> I'd say the practical advantage to the user would be almost zero.
> Which distribution is going to enable this option and defacto
> banning external modules?

It would be a real nuisance for developing code let alone for using it.
The entries are currently far bigger than is needed and fixing that would
be much more productive.

Alan