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apt also installs packages globally to the system and not every python package exists as a deb package.

• dozzie 10y ago
  Are you from the crowd that thinks that DEB packages only grow on preselected trees and people can't build a DEB themselves for what they need?
  • mhurron 10y ago
    If I have to build a deb to install something, I might as well just save myself the time and use pip. The convenience of a package manager goes away when you have to package everything yourself before you can use it. At that point saying 'why doesn't everyone just use apt-get' is the same as saying 'why doesn't everyone just configure ; make ; make install.' I also don't use Debian.
    • dozzie 10y ago
      > The convenience of a package manager goes away when you have to package everything yourself before you can use it. Far from it. You get repeatable builds and deployments, much easier and faster setup of development environment (GCC and -devel packages and foreign-language tools pulled in automatically), and you don't make intractable mess on your servers, which allows you to use much wider range of tools than architecturally broken Ansible/Salt. > I also don't use Debian. Irrelevant. Every Linux distribution and most other unix operating systems use some package manager, most of which in turn are more or less equivalent to APT.