On Saturday, February 7, 2015 at 8:43:44 AM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > There is on the one hand python modules/packages mechanism with all the > hell of dozens of incompatible versions of setuptools/distribute/distutils > etc. > > On the other there is the OS-specific practices/policy such as > https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ > > And the dark unexplored territory in between. > [Its a research project to figure out clashes between pip and apt] >
Small example of this which I just tried. Wanted to try out sympy. apt-install promised ¼ GB download, ¾ GB space usage Just getting a src-tarball was: 6M download, 30M after opening the tar. Sure the full stuff with tex fonts and all may be pretty. But does not seem necessary to push it down everyone's throat unless needed/desired -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
