I noticed that the sys.path is often cluttered with multiple instances of '/usr/share/archivematica/dashboard', '/usr/lib/archivematica/archivematicaCommon' etc having been added, and was hoping to prevent that (what happens if sys.path gets absurdly large?).  It seems less useful in client scripts as they're probably run once and don't have this problem. I go back and forth on whether it's a worthwhile pattern to cart around.