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mhogers 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosy...

Seeing a `pip install -r requirements.txt` in a very recently created python project is almost a red flag now...

nomel 11 months ago [–]

requirements.txt allows pip arguments to be included, so can be doing much more than just listing package names.

For example, installing on an air gapped system, where uv barely has support.

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