No need to be sarcastic-by-allegory. Are you using `pip freeze` / `pip list --format=freeze` to capture the state of a working environment? What size system a

No need to be sarcastic-by-allegory. Are you using `pip freeze` / `pip list --format=freeze` to capture the state of a working environment? What size system are you working on that you get into difficulties in upgrading a subset of project dependencies? It's often easier to upgrade by re-capturing the currently-contemporaneous set of dependencies, (and then diffing the new output of `pip freeze` with the previous one to see what's changed), than it is to manually follow the dependency graph when updating a single component. As always, YMMV.