test

More cleanups mostly around config #7752

Job	Run time
package	24s
build (windows-py310-unittest-asynctest)	1m 51s
build (windows-py311)	9m 9s
build (windows-py310-unittest-twisted24)	1m 41s
build (windows-py310-pluggy)	3m 42s
build (windows-py313)	7m 25s
build (windows-py310-xdist)	3m 54s
build (ubuntu-py310-unittest-asynctest)	53s
build (ubuntu-py310-unittest-twisted25)	1m 0s
build (windows-py310-unittest-twisted25)	1m 58s
build (ubuntu-py310-lsof-numpy-pexpect)	12m 39s
build (ubuntu-py311)	7m 4s
build (ubuntu-py310-pluggy)	2m 23s
build (ubuntu-py312)	8m 25s
build (windows-py312)	9m 1s
build (ubuntu-py310-freeze)	50s
build (ubuntu-py310-unittest-twisted24)	55s
build (ubuntu-py310-xdist)	2m 17s
build (macos-py312)	2m 29s
build (ubuntu-pypy3-xdist)	4m 27s
build (windows-py314)	7m 29s
build (macos-py313)	2m 25s
build (ubuntu-py313-pexpect)	8m 10s
build (doctesting)	50s
build (macos-py310)	1m 56s
build (macos-py314)	3m 14s
build (ubuntu-py314)	10m 3s
build (plugins)	59s
check	2s
	1h 57m 35s

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