Return-Path: Received: from esa9.utexas.iphmx.com ([216.71.150.155]:46498 "EHLO esa9.utexas.iphmx.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750965AbeC0Tdd (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:33:33 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [pynfs] remove redundant ply, gssapi and rpcgen.py modules To: "J. Bruce Fields" , "Jianhong.Yin" Cc: bfields@redhat.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Jianhong Yin References: <20180327172709.13071-1-yin-jianhong@163.com> <20180327183725.GA22077@fieldses.org> From: Patrick Goetz Message-ID: Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:24:00 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180327183725.GA22077@fieldses.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 03/27/2018 01:37 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > I've never used pip. Googling around, I see some people warn about > potential conflicts between pip and rpm/dpkg. Would it be better to > recommend pip install --user? > Pip is just the python package installer, similar to install.packages() in R or cpan in perl. The issue with rpm/dpkg/pacman is that the distribution package manager won't know about anything that you've installed using pip, which could mean, for example, that you've met a library dependency using pip, but apt or yum insist that the library is missing and needs to be installed.