Comment by zahlman

Scenarios like that occur daily. I do quite a bit of software development and whenever I come across something that really needs python I mentally prepare for a day of battle with the various (all subtly broken) package managers, dependency hell and circular nonsense to the point that I am also ready to give up on it after a day of trying.

Just recently: a build of a piece of software that itself wasn't written in python but that urgently needed a very particular version of it with a whole bunch of dependencies that refused to play nice with Anaconda for some reason (which in spite of the fact that it too is becoming less reliable is probably still the better one). The solution? Temporarily move andaconda to a backup directory, remove the venv activation code from .bashrc and compile the project, then restore everything to the way it was before (which I need it to be because I have some other stuff on the stove that is built using python because there isn't anything else).

And let's not go into bluetooth device support in python, anything involving networking that is a little bit off the beaten path and so on.