Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan equivalent for python

2019-11-22 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Michael Orlitzky: > Shh, this is how we trick people into becoming proxy maintainers and > eventually Gentoo developers. And don't I know it. ;-) -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan equivalent for python

2019-11-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/22/19 9:06 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote: > * Michael Orlitzky: > >> You'll have to write the ebuild yourself, there is no g-cpan >> equivalent for python packages. > > Dan wrote "I have a piece of python software [...] that I would like to > install/try". Creating an ebuild just to do that soun

Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan equivalent for python

2019-11-22 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Michael Orlitzky: > You'll have to write the ebuild yourself, there is no g-cpan > equivalent for python packages. Dan wrote "I have a piece of python software [...] that I would like to install/try". Creating an ebuild just to do that sounds like overkill to me. If the software author suggests

Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan equivalent for python

2019-11-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/22/19 4:10 PM, Dan Johansson wrote: > > The recommended way to install it is using pip which will then install > everything including dependencies (which could lead to conflicts with > software installed using emerge (I guess)). > I would rather use some "mechanism" to avoid this and use p

Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan equivalent for python

2019-11-22 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Dan Johansson: > The recommended way to install it is using pip which will then install > everything including dependencies (which could lead to conflicts with > software installed using emerge (I guess)). There will be no conflicts if you use 'pip' with virtual Python environments. The followi

[gentoo-user] g-cpan equivalent for python

2019-11-22 Thread Dan Johansson
I have a piece of python software (gigasetelements-cli, https://github.com/dynasticorpheus/gigasetelements-cli) that I would like to install/try, and of cause there is not ebuild for this. The recommended way to install it is using pip which will then install everything including dependencies