Re: virtualenv --system-site-packages (was: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages)

[Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi@mithrandi.net>]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> wrote:

On Sep 25, 2013, at 06:15 PM, W. Martin Borgert wrote:

>Quoting "Barry Warsaw" <barry@python.org>:
>> Sounds a lot like `virtualenv --system-site-packages` right?
>
>IMHO, --system-site-packages should be the default.
>IIRC, it was the default in squeeze (1.4.9),
>but is not anymore in wheezy (1.7.1.2). Opinions?

FWIW, I always use it, except when I don't and then I'm mad at myself for
forgetting that option.

I'm the exact opposite; I never use it. I only want to use system-installed packages for system-installed things (installed via .deb, of course).

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