Re: What is your opinion on "sudo pip" fix for Fedora 27?

2017-04-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 27, 2017, at 06:21 AM, Donald Stufft wrote: >For whatever it’s worth, at some point in time I plan on attempting to >formalize the Debian solution (or something akin to it) within a PEP and try >to get baked in support for it in Python. > >I also feel required to point out that ``sudo pip u

Re: What is your opinion on "sudo pip" fix for Fedora 27?

2017-04-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 27, 2017, at 04:52 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >From my perspective, the main goal of the change is to make it >possible to fully recover from "sudo pip install " by doing >"sudo pip uninstall ", and the approach Debian took is >sufficient to achieve that in almost all cases. So +1 from me for

Re: What is your opinion on "sudo pip" fix for Fedora 27?

2017-04-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 27, 2017, at 12:01 PM, Charalampos Stratakis wrote: >Fedora's equivalent to dirtbike is rewheel [0][1] and it would be great if >these projects could be unified somehow, however that's a separate >conversation for another time. > >I'd be happy to take a closer look at dirtbike and maybe ini

Re: What is your opinion on "sudo pip" fix for Fedora 27?

2017-04-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 28, 2017, at 11:50 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >My recollection from the last time I looked at this was that where >rewheel assumes that the Python level PEP 376 package metadata will be >available, dirtbike instead queried the operating system level >metadata. dirtbike consults a list of "str