Hi Scott (2023.02.28_10:24:34_-0400) > > At the moment, I don't think this would affect much, but it would give > > python installers more information about what's going on. In pip's case, > > it can disable its own "outdated version of pip" notifications when it > > detects that it wasn't installed by pip. That allows us to drop a patch > > in pip. > > Would it make more sense to mimic the PEP 668 terminology and say installer > is > "EXTERNALLY-MANAGED". Then pip wouldn't need to keep a list of installers to > ignore. Distros could all just use that.
In pip, it's the other way around. Not a list of known things to leave alone, but just a sanity check that it was installed by pip, not something else: https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/30fd549c77031275b9f2bde2b30a7f614780939c/src/pip/_internal/self_outdated_check.py#L146-L153 I don't think "EXTERNALLY-MANAGED" would be the right thing to put in INSTALLER. It doesn't fit within the description of the file. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272
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