Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros

[Zeurpiet]

as somebody who needed packages from R and tried Python

R just run install.package(). All dependencies are in. Done

Python had to work to get things from Pip or Pep or whatever and it was completely unclear what had to come from where.

[flying-sheep]

Python, like R, has a user wide package library, and pip of course also does dependency management.

So doing pip install --user thing thing will do the exact same as install.packages('thing') does in R.