On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Sandro, >> >> On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 4:44 AM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org> wrote: >>>> I wrote a page on using pip with Debian / Ubuntu here : >>>> https://matthew-brett.github.io/pydagogue/installing_on_debian.html >>> >>> Speaking with my numpy debian maintainer hat on, I would really >>> appreciate if you dont suggest to use pip to install packages in >>> Debian, or at least not as the only solution. >> >> I'm very happy to accept alternative suggestions or PRs. >> >> I know what you mean, but I can't yet see how to write a page that >> would be good for explaining the benefits / tradeoffs of using deb >> packages vs mainly or only pip packages vs a mix of the two. Do you >> have any thoughts? > > you can start by making extremely clear that this is not the Debian > supported way to install python modules on a Debian system, that if a > user uses pip to do it, it's very likely other applications or modules > will fail, that if they have any problem with anything python related, > they are on their own as they "broke" their system on purpose. thanks > for considering
I updated the page with more on reasons to prefer Debian packages over installing with pip: https://matthew-brett.github.io/pydagogue/installing_on_debian.html Is that enough to get the message across? Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
