[zahlman]

So, this is a fork of pip that adds the described checks to the UI? Looks like it also doesn't vendor dependencies like pip does, which is probably fine - you'll have to use something like (like pip) to bootstrap it, but this doesn't have the special-case requirements that motivate that design choice for pip (like being bootstrapped via standard library `ensurepip`).

[Feynmanix]

Yes, the reason I had to fork pip was that the dependency resolution logic is too complex and I couldn't recreate it from scratch with fidelity.

You're right I don't vendor dependencies, and I hope to get away with it exactly because I don't have the bootstrapping problem. In practice, you want to install pipask with pipx so that the dependencies don't mess with your local environment.