Open Scosh opened 2 years ago
about the python packaging method breaking the centrally managed philosophy of arch
How so? Is there a reason pip install --user
can't be used? There is no need to install anything globally... I'm using/developing the new version of keyszer (fork of xkeysnail) and it runs just fine installed as user - with the normal Arch packages (python, pip, etc) supporting it.
There is no need for it to be installed globally.
support for a notoriously finicky, snowflake-y distro
I'll forgive this gross miss-characterization. ;-)
Is this issue still active? I'd love to work on it!
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. install on a clean arch linux and other minimalist distros does not work properly because
wget
andpython
and/orpip
might not be installed.Describe the solution you'd like add wget and python / python3-pip to the dependency (»What does Kinto require?«) list in the README.md
i know @ehaynes99 already complained about the python packaging method breaking the centrally managed philosophy of arch, but i am not expecting you to offer free support for a notoriously finicky, snowflake-y distro — plus, i don’t really care that this »breaks the arch philosphy« as the arch philosophy also has a lot of problems in my opinion …
i just think this could perhaps be easily fixed to be a bit more inclusive for now while you’re still using
xkeysnail
instead ofkeyszer
by adding a small expansion to the README that reminds users on minmal linuxes to also check that they have whatever packages get themwget
and the python3 version ofpip
. (still python3-pip on debian-based stuff, right? and python-pip for arch, manjaro)if you’d like, i could quickly write up a pull request modifying the README accordingly :)