Yep it's maddening. We use pip-compile [1] at work and check-in the then totally-resolved requirements.txt. That is working for us well. However I still head-de

Yep it's maddening. We use pip-compile [1] at work and check-in the then totally-resolved requirements.txt. That is working for us well. However I still head-desk every time I just want to install a local package (with pip install -e) to work on it and pip runs amok, naïvely downgrading/upgrading/doing-whatever-it-pleases :/ [1] https://github.com/nvie/pip-tools https://github.com/nvie/pip-tools