Sorry, missed replying to the second part of your message. On 8 February 2017 at 13:44, Tadej Janež <tade...@nez.si> wrote: > As I see it, there are two issues when one has the aforementioned three > way combination: > > 1) Users will probably use 'pip install foo' inside the activated > virtual environment and be surprised by not being able to install > anything. > Many of them might not know the 'python -m pip install foo' variant.
Right, that's why I consider the fact that doesn't work by default a bug in Fedora's current approach. > 2) Users that know the 'python -m pip install' variant may want to > install a package inside the virtual environment that is already > available in system site-packages . The installation won't work unless > they pass the '--ignore-installed' option or they install a newer > version of the same package with '--upgrade' option. This, on the other hand, is why having the system site-packages visible is discouraged in general - it really is more complicated than using an environment that only shares that standard library and the language runtime. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list -- python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
