On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 6:52 PM Cleber Rosa <cr...@redhat.com> wrote: > > The premise behind the original behavior is that it would save people > from downloading Avocado (and other dependencies) if already installed > on the system. To be honest, I think it's extremely rare that the > same versions described as dependencies will be available on most > systems. But, the biggest motivations here are that: > > 1) Hacking on QEMU in the same system used to develop Avocado leads > to confusion with regards to the exact bits that are being used; >
Indeed! > 2) Not reusing Python packages from system wide installations gives > extra assurance that the same behavior will be seen from tests run > on different machines; > > With regards to downloads, pip already caches the downloaded wheels > and tarballs under ~/.cache/pip, so there should not be more than > one download even if the venv is destroyed and recreated. > > Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <cr...@redhat.com> > --- > tests/Makefile.include | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willi...@redhat.com>
