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by kgwgk 1214 days ago
> You might expect if I were to pip uninstall requests that I get back to a clean system, right?

Why would i expect that? If one day I install A and another day I install B, which depends on A, I wouldn’t expect to lose A of I were to uninstall B.
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ziml77 1214 days ago
If I didn't have A installed and then I install B which transitively installs A, then I expect that uninstalling B will also uninstall A. If only one system is managing the packages, then it is able to do this. It will have a record of the things I've explicitly installed so it knows what dependencies are safe to uninstall.
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kgwgk 1214 days ago
I prefer a package manager that tells me that there are things that may be safe to uninstall to one that decides to uninstall things on its own.

Maybe I installed B who installed A. Maybe sometime later I needed A and I didn’t do anything because it was already there. Seeing A disappear when I uninstall B may be unexpected.

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ZGDUwpqEWpUZ 1214 days ago
apt handles this by marking packages as manually installed. You and the author could both be happy with that solution but afaik pip doesn't currently store such information.
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