This flag would come in handy for example in sqlalchemy case. While installing sqlalchemy dependency psycopg2 is not installed with it and has to be installed manually through either binary or pip install psycopg2-binary.
I can obviously add psycopg2-binary to requirements manually, but then after rerunning pipreqs --force to get new requirements I have to remember to add all missing requirements.
--soft-force would only change the versions of stuff that is currently in requirements or add new libraries that are the difference of current inference vs requirements. This way any manually added entries wouldn't be modified.
This flag would come in handy for example in
sqlalchemycase. While installingsqlalchemydependencypsycopg2is not installed with it and has to be installed manually through either binary orpip install psycopg2-binary.I can obviously add
psycopg2-binaryto requirements manually, but then after rerunningpipreqs --forceto get new requirements I have to remember to add all missing requirements.--soft-forcewould only change the versions of stuff that is currently in requirements or add new libraries that are the difference of current inference vs requirements. This way any manually added entries wouldn't be modified.Id be happy to help with implementation.