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How many stupid bugs. How many stupid bugs do we need to face???
* this fucking train-wreck cannot come up with a unified documented way of specifying dependencies:
  * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14399534/reference-requirements-txt-for-the-install-requires-kwarg-in-setuptools-setup-py
  * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26900328/install-dependencies-from-setup-py
  * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30797124/how-to-use-setup-py-to-install-dependencies-only/63743115
  * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6947988/when-to-use-pip-requirements-file-versus-install-requires-in-setup-py
  So basically `requirements.txt` is the `package-lock.json`. But how to generate it cleanly? You would need to create a virtualenv?
* `pip search` was disabled in 2020: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17373473/how-do-i-search-for-an-available-python-package-using-pip[]. WTF. If server load is a problem, just create a token system! It is hard to understand how such a popular language can't rais enough money to keep such simple server functionality running.


Source: cirosantilli/pip-package-manager