On 21Mar2015 14:29, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
On Mar 21, 2015, at 7:52 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 19 March 2015 at 07:51, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
I’ve long wished that the OS had it’s own virtual environment. A lot of problems
seems to come from trying to cram the things the OS wants with the things that
the user wants into the same namespace.
I'm more wanting to go in the other direction and suggest to folks
that if they're not *scripting the OS*, then the system Python isn't
what they want, and they should be using at least a virtual
environment, preferably an entirely separate software collection that
they can upgrade on their own timeline, independently of what they
system does.
It’s likely easier to get the OS to move it’s own things to a virtual
environment than it is to convince every single person who uses an OS
to never install globally.
I agree.
And just as a data point, this cropped up on the Fedora list yesterday:
I broke Yum (by messing with Python libs)
http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-users/msg458069.html
TL;DR: OP used pip on his system python. Yum broke. Probably hampered his
attempts to repair, too.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
The mind reigns, but does not govern. - Paul Valery
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