Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: Tarek’s reply on IRC:
> I think we should make it dumb: in case of a conflict, it's always > better/simpler to let the user deal with it. A simple "could not > install because you have package X version Y installed'. Trying to do > something smarter is very very hard and will probably fail. About adding smarts to deal with simple cases like the one you mentioned in your email: > If we provide automation for simple cases, people will want more. So I think we’re leaning towards rejecting this. pysetup is a simple installer for simple installs; pip and other installers will use the information returned by packaging.depgraph/install to be smart about conflicts. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8927> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
