My suggestion to the pip folks was a plugin system and extension point for "install x" package that distros could provide implementations for
On Wed, 15 Feb 2023, 16:35 Stefano Rivera, <stefa...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Philippe (2023.02.13_01:11:28_+0000) > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 7:31 PM Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > > > > > I'm pretty sure that most if not all debian packages already ship > > > the required information for pip to see them as installed, and if > > > they are installed and they satisfy the dependency constraints that > > > pip has for those projects, then they'll be used. > > Yeah, most packages should ship .egg-info/.dist-info. > > > Also: > > $ dpkg -l python3-setuptools > > ... > > ii python3-setuptools 66.1.1-1 all Python3 Distutils > Enhancements > > > > Yet when I do e.g.: > > $ pip install --editable . > > Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not > writeable > > Obtaining file:///home/test/example > > Installing build dependencies ... error > > error: subprocess-exited-with-error > > You sure it isn't doing an isolated build? Try --no-build-isolation. > > SR > > -- > Stefano Rivera > http://tumbleweed.org.za/ > +1 415 683 3272 >
