On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:29 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 January 2016 at 20:48, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > > People who rely on Linux distributions want to continue > > to do so and get regular updates for system packages from > > their system vendor. Having wheel files override these > > system packages by including libs directly in the wheel > > silently breaks this expectation, potentially opening > > up the installations for security holes, difficult to > > track bugs and possible version conflicts with already > > loaded versions of the shared libs. > > For the time being, these users should either pass the "--no-binary" > option to pip, ask their distro to provide an index of pre-built wheel > files for that distro (once we have the distro-specific wheel tagging > PEP sorted out), or else ask their distro to update system Python > packages in a more timely fashion (or all of the above). > Is there a distro-specific wheel tagging PEP in development somewhere that I missed? If not, I will get the ball rolling on it. --nate
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