On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 02:24:00PM -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: > On 03/27/2018 01:37 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > >I've never used pip. Googling around, I see some people warn about > >potential conflicts between pip and rpm/dpkg. Would it be better to > >recommend pip install --user? > > Pip is just the python package installer, similar to > install.packages() in R or cpan in perl. > > The issue with rpm/dpkg/pacman is that the distribution package > manager won't know about anything that you've installed using pip, > which could mean, for example, that you've met a library dependency > using pip, but apt or yum insist that the library is missing and > needs to be installed. Any reason not to change the README to recommend pip install --user ply gssapi ? Seems like the safer default. Actually now that I look my Fedora 27 laptop has both python-gssapi and python-ply packages, so maybe there's no need for pip. --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
