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No, there are issues. If you install packages that have dependencies on libraries which apt-installed packages depend upon then you can break them. This is all
by crdoconnor 10y ago
No, there are issues. If you install packages that have dependencies on libraries which apt-installed packages depend upon then you can break them.
This is all about running code in an uncontrolled environment.
- talideon 10y agoThis is what virtual environments are for, and your solution still uses virtual environments. So no, there aren't. Now, I have a project I'd like to try with per-process mounts of dependencies using unionfs. It'd be a lot of work, and a lot could go wrong, but would solve a lot of problems.
- crdoconnor 10y ago>This is what virtual environments are for Precisely. Virtualenvs solve part of the problem by isolating the python code and its dependencies - but not all of the code. Apparently extending this behavior would cause security issues of an unknown nature...