When I first set up my requirements.txt's, I usually set up a venv, install the things that I need and then run "pip freeze" to get a list of all deps including

When I first set up my requirements.txt's, I usually set up a venv, install the things that I need and then run "pip freeze" to get a list of all deps including transitive deps, and put them all in the requirements.txts. I do sometimes feel that people are making rube goldberg machines out of their package management in an attempt to avoid just writing down all their deps.