At 09:43 AM 7/2/2007 -0700, Rob Cakebread wrote: >Hello, > >I'm wondering if a --no-dependencies option would be useful. In Gentoo >we edit every setup.py file that has install_requires, setup_requires, >or extra_requires and remove that with sed or a patch because our >package manager takes care of installing all dependencies and because >users may already have packages installed previously without setuptools >(in python 2.4). > >We've found that can cause problems[1] and are considering using > --single-version-externally-managed, but ideally we'd like to use the >full features of setuptools (without losing the ability to install >multiple versions, require-ing specific versions etc.). > >Would an option similar to --single-version-externally-managed that >simply doesn't check for installed dependencies and does not try to >download and install any dependencies be possible?
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