[Distutils] [proposal] shared distribution installations

[Thomas Kluyver]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017, at 07:16 PM, RonnyPfannschmidt wrote:
> in order to elevate those issues i would like to propose a new
> installation layout,
> where instead of storing each distribution in every python all
> distributions would share a storage, and each individual environment
> would only have references to the packages that where
> "installed/activated" for them

This is also essentially what conda does - the references being in the
form of hard links. The mechanism has some drawbacks of its own - like
if a file somehow gets modified, it's harder to fix it, because removing
the environment no longer removes the files.

Thomas