> Don't be so scared. Ruby developers have been doing this for over 7 years now. Trust us, this is much better. Your Python friends at Pypa are copying Ruby be

> Don't be so scared. Ruby developers have been doing this for over 7 years now. Trust us, this is much better. Your Python friends at Pypa are copying Ruby because dependencies are less painful there than just about anywhere. They are still painful, but this will help. I think the condescending tone is quite unnecessary ("Trust us, this is much better. Your Python friends at Pypa").. In my experience Ruby is a a far worse culprit than Python for breaking things. First of all `rvm` and `rbenv` are both bloated and rather unreasonable invasions of the shell (hi-jacking `cd` seriously?) Secondly, the fact that Ruby modules are globally shared -- can cause endless breakage from a few misbehaving packages, especially with ones that like to monkey-patch std-lib classes (refinements should improve the the later but it will take a while for the ecosystem to catch-up).