On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridh...@activestate.com> wrote: > > On 2010-03-24, at 2:04 PM, Darren Dale wrote: > >>>> Seeking clarification: how can pip recursively install dependencies >>>> *and* keep Setuptools from resolving dependencies? >>>> >>> >>> Using the --no-deps option to setup.py >> >> Amusing. Seriously though, how does pip determine the dependencies if >> it is calling setup.py with arguments that prevent Setuptools from >> resolving the dependencies? pip --help doesn't indicate a --no-deps >> option, it sounds like pip is passing that option to setup.py under >> the hood. > > > "prevent setuptools from resolving the dependencies" actually means "Hey > setutools, just install Foo into site-packages, but don't bother about its > dependencies". > > Each installed package has a 'requires.txt' file that lists the dependencies > of that package. pip presumably uses this file. > > $ cat > ~/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pylint-0.19.0-py2.6.egg-info/requires.txt > logilab-common > logilab-astng >= 0.19.2s > $
Ok, I think I understand now. Thanks. Darren _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
