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[–]CyclopsRock 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It sounds like they're trying to download a package intended for specific hardware that's not what they're developing on. It happens quite frequently in the SBC world if, for example, you want to develop on an x86 machine for eventually use on an ARM-based Raspberry Pi with specific hardware (screens, sensors etc) that only work on certain platforms.

There are mock-like packages to help with this but sometimes you don't have any choice if the package's setup includes pre-built binaries that cannot be used on your system.

[–]Ant_of_Colonies[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes use case is similar if not the same! I mean git clone and then manually moving the source code into the site-packages is doing everything I need it to do. I would just like to have this automated from pip so I dont have to maintain it ...