New comment by ahesford on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/39777#issuecomment-1271510872

Comment:
I apologize; my comment was a bit harsh.

The underlying problem is the fragmented and constantly changing official view of Python packaging building and distribution. PyPA seems to take the view that only pip matters, but they haven't addressed the first half of the packaging problem adequately and pip is a terrible package manager. The `search` sub-command has been broken by design for years because they don't seem to know how to rate-limit spammy queries; at this point why does it still exist? Even worse, why does the package manager happily let you install entirely new dependency chains and only **after** the fact warn you about conflicting version restrictions?

It's only natural that each project tries to work around a sea of inconsistent and half-formed tooling with unique hacks, but that just causes problems elsewhere. Damned whether you do or don't, indeed.