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Virtual environments and installing to $HOME are different things. He says using virtual environments would be a lot more to learn but he just reinvented them.
by pseudalopex 6y ago
Virtual environments and installing to $HOME are different things. He says using virtual environments would be a lot more to learn but he just reinvented them.
- pdonis 6y ago> Virtual environments and installing to $HOME are different things. I know that, and you know that, but I'm not sure the poster I was responding to knows that. In any case, for the use case of the author of the article, there is no "home directory" to use, so installing to $HOME was not an option. > He says using virtual environments would be a lot more to learn but he just reinvented them. He invented a sort of poor man's venv that just meets the particular needs of his use case. Sometimes that's a better solution than adopting a standard tool that requires more work and understanding to use.