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Arch has set python to externally managed since June, so you can't mix system python packages with pip installed ones. https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/p
by SushiHippie 3y ago
Arch has set python to externally managed since June, so you can't mix system python packages with pip installed ones.
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/python/-/commit/547eee4deb54fda2a3892997145b57de37301c5d https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/py...
https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/ https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/
- mharig 3y agoWith sudo pip you can. But I was thinking of other Linux distributions. The ones that caused the introduction of --break-system-packages. And it prevents less a mixing than a shadowing of system packages with local packages.
- SushiHippie 3y agoYes on arch you can only install packages with `--break-system-packages`. But you can't accidentally mix up system packages with pip.