On Jul 10, 10:21 am, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Phlip <phlip2...@gmail.com> writes: > > 'sudo pip install morelia' just worked for me, on Ubuntu. > > The problem with ‘pip’ is that it's a parallel package installation that > ignores the available package management system on the OS. > > That's not a fault of ‘pip’ or Setuptools or PyPI or the rest; but it's > a higher maintenance burden for the user than getting a package from the > same system that provides all the rest of their packages on the > computer. > > On operating systems with poor package management, Python's distutils > and PyPI etc. are better than nothing. But on an OS like Debian with > good package management already for free software, it's a step backward > to rely on external dependencies from a disjoint package system.
Just curious: Do you manage to stay within debian packages and have all the python packages you want/need at the versions that are most convenient? For myself, until recently my debian testing did not even give python2.7. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
