On 28 April 2017 at 02:01, Charalampos Stratakis wrote:
> Fedora's equivalent to dirtbike is rewheel [0][1] and it would be great if
> these projects could be unified somehow, however that's a separate
> conversation for another time.
>
> I'd be happy to take a closer look at dirtbike and maybe
On Apr 27, 2017, at 12:01 PM, Charalampos Stratakis wrote:
>Fedora's equivalent to dirtbike is rewheel [0][1] and it would be great if
>these projects could be unified somehow, however that's a separate
>conversation for another time.
>
>I'd be happy to take a closer look at dirtbike and maybe ini
Fedora's equivalent to dirtbike is rewheel [0][1] and it would be great if
these projects could be unified somehow, however that's a separate conversation
for another time.
I'd be happy to take a closer look at dirtbike and maybe initiate some
discussions when I get some free time.
[0]
http:/
On Apr 27, 2017, at 04:52 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>From my perspective, the main goal of the change is to make it
>possible to fully recover from "sudo pip install " by doing
>"sudo pip uninstall ", and the approach Debian took is
>sufficient to achieve that in almost all cases. So +1 from me for
On Apr 27, 2017, at 06:21 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
>For whatever it’s worth, at some point in time I plan on attempting to
>formalize the Debian solution (or something akin to it) within a PEP and try
>to get baked in support for it in Python.
>
>I also feel required to point out that ``sudo pip u
On 27 April 2017 at 23:04, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 04:32:09PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> Their approach means that any harm caused by "sudo pip install X" can
>> subsequently be fully reversed by doing "sudo pip uninstall X".
>>
>> At this moment, this is NOT true fo
> On Apr 27, 2017, at 2:32 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> Debian and derivatives already mitigate the potential harm for these
> cases by requiring the "--install-layout=deb" option to be passed to
> get distutils to install into the system directories rather than doing
> it by default: https://wik
