Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan equivalent for python

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 11/22/19 9:06 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote:
> * Michael Orlitzky:
>
>> You'll have to write the ebuild yourself, there is no g-cpan
>> equivalent for python packages.
>
> Dan wrote "I have a piece of python software [...] that I would like to
> install/try". Creating an ebuild just to do that sounds like overkill to
> me. If the software author suggests pip, than pip is what I'd use. ;-)
>

Shh, this is how we trick people into becoming proxy maintainers and
eventually Gentoo developers.

Seriously though, every python package suggests using pip because the
authors are on Windows/Mac and don't know that there's a better way to
live. Figuring out how to write ebuilds can be fun, and in this case (I
wouldn't have suggested it otherwise), it should be relatively easy too.