What about user apps that might depend on these in the future
What about user apps that might depend on these in the future
Posted Jul 16, 2025 19:19 UTC (Wed) by joib (subscriber, #8541)In reply to: What about user apps that might depend on these in the future by jsanders
Parent article: Fedora SIG changes Python packaging strategy
Yes, some kind of meta package manager, that could use a number of different backends (dnf/rpm, pypi, crates/cargo, cran, cpan etc etc.).
The problem is of course the impedance mismatch, and various policy issues. And to be honest, many package managers just aren't that good. I've tried to manage a number of long lived python environments with pip or conda, upgrading packages etc just like with a distro package manager. But it just doesn't work, sooner or later the environment gets itself into a pretzel and you have to start over.