<story><title>Cooperative Package Management for Python</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/867657/0efafb319ce20e3e/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>uranusjr</author><text>(Disclosure: I’m one of the PEP authors.) I want to clarify a point since many comments seem to go “I do container&amp;#x2F;Nix&amp;#x2F;virtualenv so this is not a problem”. That’s absolutely correct, nothing will ever go wrong if you do any of those things. This is a solved problem.&lt;p&gt;But there are a significant number of people that do not do any of these and insist on installing things into the system-provided Python and expect smooth sailing. This is the “problem” for pip and distro maintainers, and what this PEP aims to solve, to guide people toward one of those solutions.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cooperative Package Management for Python</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/867657/0efafb319ce20e3e/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>derriz</author><text>I probably haven&amp;#x27;t thought this fully through but wouldn&amp;#x27;t it be simpler to just have a system venv - root protected - perhaps distributed using the system&amp;#x27;s package manager?  Then if you mess up site-packages at least you wouldn&amp;#x27;t break the system tools.</text></comment>