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[Ben Finney]

Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sunday, May 18, 2014 5:47:05 AM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> > Make a list of the [Python-specific] packages you need. Put it in a
> > file called requirements.txt. […]
>
> What about things installed at a lower level than pip, eg apt-get?

That's an important issue. Requirements of a project, such as packages
that need to be installed from the operating system (e.g. “you need
Python 3.2 or later for this project”), are ideal for documenting in
plain human-targeted text in a document called “requirements.txt”.

Which is why I advocate using a *different* filename, more explicit
about its special purpose (e.g. ‘pip_requirements’), for the
Pip-specific (and thereby Python-specific) machine-readable
configuration file.

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Ben Finney