my wishlist for easy_install
Hi, I'd really like to see these two features in easy_install which I can't find right now: 1 - coexist with the operating system/recognize packages which are installed via operating system means 2 - remove packages Currently, when I want to easy_install a package, it starts downloading all sorts of stuff from PYPI although I have already similar (the same - maybe other versions) packages in my system which I installed via the operating system's package manager. I'd really like to not have to manually inspect a prospective package to then manually download and install all dependencies via the package manager, and then to proceed to easy_install -N the offending package, but instead have this process automated. I'd also be able to say something like easy_install -r package to remove such a package, but only if I installed it via easy_install in the first place, leaving operating system installed packages alone. I'm mostly using easy_install on Debian/Linux (Etch), but other platforms (OpenBSD, maybe Solaris) are relevant for me, too. Thanks for listening! Best, --Toni++
--On 29. August 2007 10:37:46 +0200 Toni Mueller <support@oeko.net> wrote:
Hi,
I'd really like to see these two features in easy_install which I can't find right now:
1 - coexist with the operating system/recognize packages which are installed via operating system means 2 - remove packages
Currently, when I want to easy_install a package, it starts downloading all sorts of stuff from PYPI although I have already similar (the same - maybe other versions) packages in my system which I installed via the operating system's package manager. I'd really like to not have to manually inspect a prospective package to then manually download and install all dependencies via the package manager, and then to proceed to easy_install -N the offending package, but instead have this process automated.
Switch to isolated Python environments....pretty easy using workingenv or virtual_python. -aj
At 10:37 AM 8/29/2007 +0200, Toni Mueller wrote:
I'd really like to see these two features in easy_install which I can't find right now:
1 - coexist with the operating system/recognize packages which are installed via operating system means 2 - remove packages
Currently, when I want to easy_install a package, it starts downloading all sorts of stuff from PYPI although I have already similar (the same - maybe other versions) packages in my system which I installed via the operating system's package manager.
As of Python 2.5, packages installed using the distutils will have .egg-info files that tell setuptools they are installed... assuming that the OS distributor doesn't remove them. If you have a version of Python <2.5, you will need to either manually create .egg-info files or else live with easy_install installing duplicates.
I'd also be able to say something like
easy_install -r package
to remove such a package, but only if I installed it via easy_install in the first place, leaving operating system installed packages alone.
This is a feature that may appear in setuptools 0.7 some time in the future, but it probably won't be an easy_install option (as easy_install already has way too many options).
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Andreas Jung -
Phillip J. Eby -
Toni Mueller