I agree that is "easiest" but what I was after was the ability to restrict myself to the curated and signed packages from debian, pypi is just as bad as old CPAN when it comes to packages disappearing or being broken or depending on totally random versions
On Wed, 15 Feb 2023, 22:01 Jeremy Stanley, <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: > As someone who does Python software development on Debian constantly > for their $dayjob, my best advice is to just install things from > PyPI into and run them from venvs/virtualenvs. The default "--user" > install mode pip offers is fragile and leaves you with potential > conflicts anyway if you need different versions of dependencies for > different things. > > To your original question, if you really want to use some > Debian-packaged libraries mixed with things installed from source or > from PyPI, make your venv with the --system-site-packages option. > -- > Jeremy Stanley >
