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pip freeze gets everything installed. Yes, that 'freezes' everything installed... but that's the point. If you want to update a direct dependency, you just do

pip freeze gets everything installed. Yes, that 'freezes' everything installed... but that's the point. If you want to update a direct dependency, you just do pip install -u <my-dep>. Any indirect dependencies are updated, and you freeze again. Sometimes direct-dependency-a and direct-dependency-b have a conflict on which version of indirect-dependency-y you need. This is what we call doing 'actual work.'

dbsmith83 7y ago
^This. I don't understand everyone in this thread complaining that it's hard to update a direct dependency. You literally just pip install it and "pip freeze > requirements.txt" again. In my experience, the issues come around when you try to build envs cross-platform. There are a lot of dependencies that have missing versions or bugs for certain platforms. This is not a pip/venv problem though--it is more of a python problem.