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Re:Python 3.11 by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday October 03, 2021 @11:29PM (#28742727)
> a lot of its package management is based around that philosophy of carefully hand-tended servers shared by multiple users.

Is it? I'd love for apt to support virtual environments or `apt install --user` like pip does, let alone populating venvs with requirements.txt.

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Re:Python 3.11 by lmm on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:46AM (#28743464)
The pile of debootstrap chroot stuff that you get told to use works pretty similarly to virtualenv. It's pretty clunky and bolted-on, but so is the Python version.
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Re:Python 3.11 by fragmede on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:48AM (#28743473)
(s)`chroot` and `debootstrap` existed long before docker did for this purpose.
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