On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 07:48:47 -0500
Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org> wrote:

> On Jan 22, 2022, at 06:35, Dorian ROSSE <dorianbr...@hotmail.fr>
> wrote:
> > 
> > Have you tried 'pip3 install python3dist ' ?  
> 
> I never suggest Fedora users run ‘pip’ as root, except when in a
> virtualenv, dockerfile or some contained environment. 
> 
> It is far too easy for pip to overwrite or override a packaged python
> library and break system tools, such as the ones used in DNF. Once
> you’ve broken dnf, it is hard to fix those libraries since dnf is the
> tool to fix them. 

ObXKCD: <https://xkcd.com/1987/>

But seriously, I used to use the cpan command to install missing Perl
modules.  That led to many interesting problems, especially after
system updates.  I now build my own RPMs (cpanspec is great).  The has
many advantages: the same software is available on many computers,
system and package updates are easy, and the spec file documents how
thee software was built.  The current Fedora packaging tooling also
makes it easy to build Python packages as RPMs.
<https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Python/>

It would be great if the Fedora project were to emphasize the
advantages to sysadmins and developers of build their own RPMs.

Jim
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