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slurgfest on June 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Python Packaging: Hate, hate, hate everywhere

What hype? pip can uninstall packages. This is a very hard feature to live without for everyone. Binary eggs seem to have a devoted following but are not a universal need.

the_mitsuhiko on June 23, 2012 [–]

> This is a very hard feature to live without for everyone.

I never ever uninstalled a package since I started using virtualenv. I always just trash the venv every once in a while and recreate it from a requirements.txt.

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