Hello, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 04:39:28PM +0200, Maxime Devos wrote: >> See <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0668/>. >> I haven't looked closely into this myself. >> It might be relevant to Guix. >> >> For LWN subscribers, there is an article about the PEP: >> <https://lwn.net/Articles/867657/>. > > Here is a link for everyone to read: > > https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/867657/c4e77bb70e27c910/ Guix already makes life easier with dealing with Python environments (especially with GUIX_PYTHONPATH on core-updates), but it's nice to know this problem is getting addressed. IIUC, PEP 668 is about *warning* a pip user when installing a package would shadow a system one; it does so by reading a EXTERNALLY-MANAGED file in the Python library site-packages directory. So simply put, all we have to do to enable this future warning in pip is to install an EXTERNALLY-MANAGED file as a phase in our python-build-system. Thanks for the link! Maxim
