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by ActorNightly 1434 days ago
Its not a mess, people just make it a mess because of the lack of understanding around it, and getting lazy with using a combination of pip install, apt install, and whatever else. Also, the problem is compounded by people using Mac to develop, which have a different way of handling system wide python installs from brew, and then trying to port that to Linux.
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One could argue that if you need a lot of understanding it is a mess.
No one sane actually advocates using system python to develop anything, whether on mac or linux