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| From: | "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a solution to the distutils/setuptools .egg-info mess | ||
| Date: | Mon, 10 Jan 2022 12:27:31 | ||
| Message-Id: | 18cebe2b8ad9f7ed5f8c6342434a3a045e151d49.camel@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a solution to the distutils/setuptools .egg-info mess by Anna |
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| 1 | On Mon, 2022-01-10 at 17:01 +0500, Anna wrote: |
| 2 | > On 2022-01-10 06:39, Michał Górny wrote: |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | > > However, this isn't going to help for dead projects. |
| 5 | > |
| 6 | > Dead dependencies probably should be reported upstream too. |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Unfortunately, upstreams often don't care. As long as it is installable |
| 10 | via pip... What's even worse, it's not uncommon for people to add new |
| 11 | dependencies on packages that haven't seen a release in 5+ years. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | -- |
| 14 | Best regards, |
| 15 | Michał Górny |