[Python-Dev] how to easily consume just the parts of eggs that are good for you (original) (raw)

Andrew McNabb amcnabb at mcnabbs.org
Wed Apr 9 18:24:22 CEST 2008

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:37:07AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:

Moreover, many of us already have a database of all packages on the system, not just Python-language ones: the package database of our operating system. Adding another, parallel, database which needs separate maintenance, and only applies to Python packages, is not a step forward in such a situation.

I agree with you completely. There are three things I can see myself wanting from an easy_install command:

  1. To download and install an RPM/dpkg to a system-wide location. The package is then removable using the normal system package manager.

  2. To download the source of a package.

  3. To install a package to my home directory. I would much rather that this hypothetical easy_install did rpm --prefix "$HOME/.local" -ivh some_package.rpm than have a Python-specific database.

> They both agreed that it made perfect sense. I told one of them > about the alternate proposal to define a new database file to > contain a list of installed packages, and he sighed and rolled his > eyes and said "So they are planning to reinvent apt!".

That's pretty much my reaction, too.

Me, too.

-- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20080409/deba6c62/attachment.pgp

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list