On 31.08.2015 11:05, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > On 31 Aug 2015, at 10:44, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >> >> There's also another difference: Linux repos are usually managed >> by a single entity owning the packages, very much unlike PyPI which >> is merely a hosting platform and index to point to packages owned >> by the authors. > > That is probably true for public repositories. However, there are also a huge > number of organisations who have internal repositories for deb/rpm packages, > and many of those contain third party packages. I have a couple, and most of > them contain a combination of our own packages as well as collection of > backports and custom packages for software that hasn’t been packaged by > anyone else.
True, but for those, I think explicitly adding the index URL to the package installer search path is the better approach. Or perhaps I misunderstood and you meant something like: "If the package is not in my internal repo, I don't want pip to look it up on PyPI or anywhere else." That's a valid use case, but it seems orthogonal to the question of making public repositories for specific packages more easily configurable for package manager users. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Aug 31 2015) >>> Python Projects, Coaching and Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC Plone/Zope Database Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2015-08-27: Released eGenix mx Base 3.2.9 ... http://egenix.com/go83 2015-08-19: Released mxODBC 3.3.5 ... http://egenix.com/go82 ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
