[Distutils] setuptools --no-dependencies option needed?
Rob Cakebread
pythonhead at gentoo.org
Mon Jul 2 18:43:53 CEST 2007
Hello,
I'm wondering if a --no-dependencies option would be useful. In Gentoo
we edit every setup.py file that has install_requires, setup_requires,
or extra_requires and remove that with sed or a patch because our
package manager takes care of installing all dependencies and because
users may already have packages installed previously without setuptools
(in python 2.4).
We've found that can cause problems[1] and are considering using
--single-version-externally-managed, but ideally we'd like to use the
full features of setuptools (without losing the ability to install
multiple versions, require-ing specific versions etc.).
Would an option similar to --single-version-externally-managed that
simply doesn't check for installed dependencies and does not try to
download and install any dependencies be possible?
Rob
[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183977
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