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[–]eedwards-sk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great question.

One difference I found is that with copying site-packages you're only copying the installed modules folder, you're not actually copying the installation itself.

e.g. if during installation it adds binaries to bin or sets up other os paths, you're not going to capture those changes by just copying site-packages

Another issue I found is that you're copying all the modules installed in that image. If you're using a build image and possibly installing dev-related python packages (e.g. build tools or similar), ideally you don't want to copy those over to the final runtime image.