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by abofh 2197 days ago
The problem is the implicit guarantee:

- Step 3: pip update && install X

- Step 4: run step-tool

- Step 5: pip update && install Y <build failure>

To be clear, I'm sure all these things can be solved by a complex enough stream of shell commands, but I'm also forced to shove in updates at every step of my build, which is an artifact of the build-system