On 5 February 2014 02:25, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 05, 2014, at 01:05 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >>That only works if the system site packages is configured to be >>visible inside the virtual environment - it usually isn't these days. > > Really? I do this all the time. It prevents downloading gobs of stuff from > PyPI that my system already provides in reasonably up-to-date versions.
So do I - there's a bunch of RPMs in the system packages that are a pain to install from source (if they're on PyPI at all - assorted Fedora specific utilities aren't). But virtualenv doesn't work that way by default, and the web/PaaS focused devs that write a lot of the upstream "best practices" guidelines aren't typically fans of distro provided packages because they're too old (scientific users often have a similar complaint). Playing peacemaker between the "move fast and break things" and "if it's less than 5 years old it's still just a fad" schools of thought is one of the things that makes packaging so "interesting" ;) Cheers, Nick. > > -Barry > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
