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I wish there was an easy way for pip to list what it's missing so it's easier to install dependencies via the system package manager. Also it's sad how setup to

• zahlman 2y ago
  >I wish there was an easy way for pip to list what it's missing so it's easier to install dependencies via the system package manager. PEP 725 is trying to be exactly that (https://peps.python.org/pep-0725/ https://peps.python.org/pep-0725/). It just took this long, since the implementation of the new `pyproject.toml` system, to get around to it. But aside from that, the system package manager is only appropriate for "dependencies" that need it - i.e. things that need to actually be part of the local system, not packages side-by-side in a virtual environment somewhere. >Also it's sad how setup tools bdist_rpm seems to be considered deprecated. Historically, Setuptools tried to be a complete solution for everything except actually fetching code. People were even expected to setup.py install locally after downloading something from GitHub or whatever. Nowadays it's supposed to be just a build backend, for the kind of building processes that can be automated under Pip's direction. `bdist_rpm` simply doesn't fit that mold. You're supposed to use a third-party build system instead.