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From: Stephane Wirtel <stephane@wirtel.be>
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Subject: Re: Mapping between python packages and distro packages?
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 23:15:50 +0100
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> I don't know how the program would detect it, but I'd be thinking "the
> one where 'sudo apt-get install PACKAGENAME' gets the same code that
> 'pip install THING' gets". In a lot of cases, PACKAGENAME will simply
> be python-THING or python3-THING, eg python3-sqlalchemy,
> python3-scipy, python3-bs4; as a human, that's what I'd try first. But
> having a program recognize this would be hugely beneficial.
+1

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