[gentoo-user] 17 new packages because pip wants to write poetry?

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

This morning a routine emerge -auvND wanted to install 17 new packages
for no apparent reason.

Adding a 't' to the emerge options seems to point to pip, which now
wants to install a whole shed-load of new packages — among them
dev-python/poetry and a bunch of markdown and rich-text libraries. Oh
great, pip has incorporated AI, become self-aware, and wants to write
angst-ridden poetry about the futility of "life".

It turns out dev-python/poetry has nothing to do with poetry, so my AI
paranoia was unjustified (this time), but one wonders what devs are
thinking when the decide they add dozens of new dependencies like
that. Why does pip suddenly need to format (or produce?) both markdown
and RTF when it's been able to get along fine without them for so many
years?

--
Grant