On 5 February 2014 02:25, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
On Feb 05, 2014, at 01:05 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
That only works if the system site packages is configured to be visible inside the virtual environment - it usually isn't these days.
Really? I do this all the time. It prevents downloading gobs of stuff from PyPI that my system already provides in reasonably up-to-date versions.
So do I - there's a bunch of RPMs in the system packages that are a pain to install from source (if they're on PyPI at all - assorted Fedora specific utilities aren't). But virtualenv doesn't work that way by default, and the web/PaaS focused devs that write a lot of the upstream "best practices" guidelines aren't typically fans of distro provided packages because they're too old (scientific users often have a similar complaint). Playing peacemaker between the "move fast and break things" and "if it's less than 5 years old it's still just a fad" schools of thought is one of the things that makes packaging so "interesting" ;) Cheers, Nick.
-Barry
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