Cooperative Package Management for Python
Why do all languages have to reinvent packaging and typically do it poorly. If instead pip and co could be configured to output an rpm or deb file which would then be installed everything would work much easier. Instead we have to deal with the mess that&#x27;s virtualenvs, which causes python devs to often be way too specific in version specs, which only causes the mess that virtualenvs are trying to solve.<p>Seriously the only sane way language package managers should work is by hooking into the system package management, maybe with an option to install in the user directory.