Should there be a dedicated tag (or category) for packaging help questions?

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I just tagged the following topic with packaging-help tag (that had to be created, it did no exist yet):

Additional command line options via python -mbuild?

I am now in the process of rewriting my setup.py build building to using python -mbuild (or python -mpip wheel) and I don’t how to push information from the command line to my setup.py. I have two additional options created via subclassing build_ext.build_ext (and build.build), which used to work perfectly well with Windows, where I need to let the build process know where OpenSSL libraries and header files live. Also, I need to support Python 3.6, so keeping my setuptools somewhere around 40.5.…