[mvermaat]

I have a "pip install ipython" in ~/.virtualenvs/postmkvirtualenv to make that a bit easier.

My major problem I have is packages using cython or depending on external C header files in some other way. For example, matplotlib and the IPython qtconsole.

For one, I don't even have gcc on servers that I want to deploy to using a virtualenv. but the major pain is finding out what *-dev packages I need to have installed in order to install using pip (if it can be done at all).

I don't think I ever had the IPython qtconsole working from a virtualenv without using system site packages.