Comment by mkl
3 days ago
It shouldn't install any packages itself. Just print out a message about the missing packages and your guess of the command to install them, then exit. That way users can run the command themselves if it's appropriate or add the packages to their container build or whatever. People set up machines in a lot of different ways, and automatically installing things is going to mess that up.
Hmmm so I should get rid of the asking / permissions message?
Yes, since you won't actually need the permissions.
Hmmm I'm worried people will really not get on how to install / compile / use the terminal hmmm hence I thought permissions were like a compromise solution
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This is an edge case optimization at the cost of 95% of users.
95% of users probably won't be using Linux. Most of those who are will have no problem installing dependencies. There are too many distributions and ways of setting them up for automated package manager use to be the right thing to do. I have never seen a Python package even try.