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by db65edfc7996 1515 days ago
> If you want reproducibility, it takes ~30 minutes just to resolve dependencies for relatively small-but-not-toy-sized projects.

I will be the first to complain about Python packaging, but 30 minutes is far far beyond anything I have experienced.

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It seems approximately correct to me. I always do `--no-dependencies` when I have a `pip freeze` output, for exactly this reason.
Idk man. Pipenv. I’ve heard people say similar about poetry, but I’ve also heard people say poetry has improved.