On Sat, 2024-11-30 at 10:59 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > With reference to the Fedora environment, if a package is required to > be installed, would you recommend installing the repository version > or download it with pip?
The recommendation always was use your distro's packaging system if you wanted a stable system. Of course you're screwed if what you want isn't available for it. That leaves you with trying to create it, or influencing someone else into doing it. Or you take your chances and install it from outside of the distro's ecosystem, and you get to play with all the pieces when it breaks. You may be able to sandbox things to some extent, but that's going to depend on how much of your system's doo-dahs make use of Python. That's probably less of an problem if your PC is just a box you type code on than something more general use. Any PC with just five application on it is obviously going to have less interactions and clashes than one with a hundred. For these kinds of reasons (limiting breakage, and recovery from it) that some people use virtual machines. They can set up a playpen that's not the main OS. A playpen that they can dump if it goes haywire and they still have a running system. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
