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PEP 668: Fix links to other PEPs #2058

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Expand Up @@ -98,10 +98,10 @@ package
Python-specific package manager
A tool for installing, upgrading, and/or removing Python packages
in a manner that conforms to Python packaging standards (such as
PEP 376 [#PEP-376]_ and PEP 427 [#PEP-427]_). The most popular
Python-specific package manager is pip [#pip]_; other examples
include the old Easy Install command [#easy-install]_ as well as
direct usage of a ``setup.py`` command.
PEP 376 and PEP 427). The most popular Python-specific package
manager is pip [#pip]_; other examples include the old Easy
Install command [#easy-install]_ as well as direct usage of a
``setup.py`` command.

(Conda [#conda]_ is a bit of a special case, as the ``conda``
command can install much more than just Python packages, making it
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packages in an installed instance of that distro, which is capable
of installing Python packages as well as non-Python packages, and
therefore generally has its own database of installed software
unrelated to PEP 376 [#PEP-376]. Examples include ``apt``,
``dpkg``, ``dnf``, ``rpm``, ``pacman``, and ``brew``. The salient
feature is that if a package was installed by a distro package
manager, removing or upgrading it in a way that would satisfy a
Python-specific package manager will generally leave a distro
package manager in an inconsistent state.
unrelated to PEP 376. Examples include ``apt``, ``dpkg``, ``dnf``,
``rpm``, ``pacman``, and ``brew``. The salient feature is that if
a package was installed by a distro package manager, removing or
upgrading it in a way that would satisfy a Python-specific package
manager will generally leave a distro package manager in an
inconsistent state.

This document also uses phrases like "external package manager" or
"system's package manager" to refer to a distro package manager in
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is outside the scope of this PEP.)

Should the file be TOML? TOML is gaining popularity for packaging (see
e.g. PEP-517) but does not yet have an implementation in the standard
e.g. PEP 517) but does not yet have an implementation in the standard
library. Strictly speaking, this isn't a blocker - distros need only
write the file, not read it, so they don't need a TOML library (the
file will probably be written by hand, regardless of format), and
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.. _`Playing nice with external package managers`: https://discuss.python.org/t/playing-nice-with-external-package-managers/1968

.. [#PEP-376] PEP 376, Database of Installed Python Distributions, Ziadé
(http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0376)

.. [#PEP-427] PEP 427, The Wheel Binary Package Format 1.0, Holth
(http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427)

.. [#pip] https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/

.. [#easy-install] https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deprecated/easy_install.html
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