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		paultag on Feb 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Butterfly: Your everyday terminal in your web brow... I wrote about why this was a bad idea at: http://notes.pault.ag/debian-python/ If you want a clear failure mode - if this installs requests globally, think about the chaos if you're on Debian stable, with 0.12.1, before the API break - after a pip install, you may end up with all the software on your system broken. When this happens, please don't file bugs with Debian. Thanks.

manoDev on Feb 28, 2014 [–]

> When this happens, please don't file bugs with Debian. Thanks.

We are all adults here. I believe the implications of using pip instead of apt on Debian are pretty clear for anyone using it. This is not an universal problem though.

paultag on Feb 28, 2014 | [–]

No. It's not. If you saw the people filing the bugs, you wouldn't say this.

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