# Idea: selector packages

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/idea-selector-packages/4463>\
**Category:** Packaging\
**Created:** [June 17, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/idea-selector-packages/4463 "2020-06-17T15:52:24Z")\
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> [@msarahan](#):
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> It would much smaller if they are using common shared libraries

Can you factor out those shared libraries into a separate, common wheel that isn’t linked against a specific CUDA version? Then, by “simply” controlling the loading order of those libraries (on Linux and Windows), everything should work. At least that’s my understanding after reading [this post](https://discuss.python.org/t/native-dependencies-in-other-wheels-how-i-do-it-but-maybe-we-can-standardize-something/23913/9) describing how the RobotPy project does it.

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