I tend to think that PyPI is less important than you might think. Yes, it's
convenient. But it's a language-specific installer, easy to install yourself
if you really want it, and even if you don't have it, it's perfectly easy to
just download the files from PyPI, extract, and do
It's a nice idea but as you've said it's hard to do in an automated way. Some
human intervention will always be needed. This is probably why Trisquel is
doing what it's doing; It's easier to remove it than it is to filter and
maintain it.
This problem isn't specific to Trisquel though. It
(5) My programming experience is limited and I took this on partially as an
educational project, so technical feedback is also welcome.
As discussed in this bug report,[1] pip allows the user to search and install
software from pypi.org, some of which is proprietary. It looks like pip is
going to be removed entirely[2] to address this freedom issue. However, since
most software in the PyPI repository is free, I think it
If the 'trisquel' metapackage is not installed, install it in order to make
sure that you are not missing any desktop components.
If you would be content with a workaround, you could just add a new entry to
Startup Applications with the command "caja -n"
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> First it had to update the cache.
> Then it said check Internet for software updates.
> Then it downloaded a whole bunch of updates, particularly to Abrowser &
> LibreOffice and something called libglib, as well as python, .
That was the expected behavior. Sounds like the issue is fixed.
