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Since moving to Nix, I've been forced to setup virtual envs for my more interesting projects (oh sure, I install the common libraries at the system level), and

Since moving to Nix, I've been forced to setup virtual envs for my more interesting projects (oh sure, I install the common libraries at the system level), and though I resisted this workflow a lot initially (I like to keep a tight ship), I've come to embrace its practicality when working on projects that have libs with breaking changes due to rapid releases. it's saved me a world of pain a number of times to have different versions of the same libs installed in different envs

rbanffy 6y ago
I would discourage distros from even shipping easy_install and pip by default. One should never mess with the system Python.
- XorNot 6y ago
  The existence of "the system python" as the default has annoyed me endlessly.
  - rbanffy 6y ago
    On most Linux distros, it's a requirement for a lot of the desktop functionality. Why would having a default Python environment you can count on be a annoyance?
rowanG077 6y ago
This is what I love about Nix. It has actually completely solved dependency hell for me. It's always a little painful to move an existing project to Nix but I have never regretted it.