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A longstanding tug-of-war between system package managers and Python’s own
installation mechanisms (primarily pip, but there are others) looks
on its way to being resolved—or at least regularized. PEP 668
(“Graceful cooperation between external and Python package
managers“) has been created to provide ways for the two types of package installation
to
work together, rather than at cross-purposes at times.
Since many operating systems depend on Python tools, with package versions
that may differ from those of users’ Python applications, making them play together
nicely should result in more stable systems.