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Re:Butterfly: Your everyday terminal in your web browser by paultag on Friday February 28, 2014 @05:34PM (#7322012)
I wrote about why this was a bad idea at: http://notes.pault.ag/debian-python/

If you want a clear failure mode - if this installs requests globally, think about the chaos if you're on Debian stable, with 0.12.1, before the API break - after a pip install, you may end up with all the software on your system broken.

When this happens, please don't file bugs with Debian. Thanks.

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Re:Butterfly: Your everyday terminal in your web browser by hcarvalhoalves on Friday February 28, 2014 @05:42PM (#7322050)
> When this happens, please don't file bugs with Debian. Thanks.

We are all adults here. I believe the implications of using pip instead of apt on Debian are pretty clear for anyone using it. This is not an universal problem though.

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Re:Butterfly: Your everyday terminal in your web browser by paultag on Friday February 28, 2014 @05:56PM (#7322112)
No. It's not. If you saw the people filing the bugs, you wouldn't say this.
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