[Python-ideas] Things I wish Pip learned from Npm

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri May 9 19:25:03 CEST 2014


On May 08, 2014, at 03:22 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

>Debian and Ubuntu won't be providing pip automatically outside of a
>virtualenv, but we'll provide some hints as to how to install it using the
>OS package manager.

I should clarify this.  I think python3-pip should be a Recommends (for
python3 I guess) and apt-get installs Recommends by default, so to most people
it'll seem like you get it automatically.  But you disable this with apt-get's
--no-install-recommends flag.

Cheers,
-Barry
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