Re:Google’s in-house desktop Linux
by philsnow on Monday August 01, 2022 @10:21PM
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> installing up to date things from a language package manager is harder on Debian than elsewhere
For better or for worse, I think this is partly where my preference to use rbenv, pyenv, asdf, etc comes from.
The other part was from hosing my system installed pip packages for the Nth time because long ago I didn't fully understand pip (still don't, but I didn't then either) and I used a mix of "pip install" and "sudo pip install" when the former didn't work. I could only work on one thing at a time with this approach, and switching was a huge task because I had to figure out all the places where packages had landed and either remove them individually or blow the whole thing away.
For better or for worse, I think this is partly where my preference to use rbenv, pyenv, asdf, etc comes from.
The other part was from hosing my system installed pip packages for the Nth time because long ago I didn't fully understand pip (still don't, but I didn't then either) and I used a mix of "pip install" and "sudo pip install" when the former didn't work. I could only work on one thing at a time with this approach, and switching was a huge task because I had to figure out all the places where packages had landed and either remove them individually or blow the whole thing away.