On 2016-01-23 08:09:47 +1300 (+1300), Robert Collins wrote: [...] > Having a interface to the system package manager as has been > previously mooted - and I'm going to get back to that - might help a > little, but uninstalls are quite different to installs. Uninstalls get > blocked by things like 'app-foo requires requests', and I would be > super suprised (and delighted!) if we were able to override that when > upgrading requests via pip :)
Add to this the fact that whatever system-distributed files pip removes/replaces will get quietly overwritten again the next time you update your system packages and there's a new version of whatever you've replaced... perhaps being able to set a hold state through the distro package manager from pip at that point for whatever package owned the files it replaced would be a helpful middle ground (I know how I'd go about it on Debian derivatives, less so on all those "other" distros). -- Jeremy Stanley _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
