@Denton@jk I just don't understand how Python management is so much more difficult than Perl considering the age of both.
I use the heck out of cpanspec and just plain rpmbuild to make well-formed RPM packages with all the dependencies tracked that we can manage in-house with yum/dnf, but setuptools doesn't do any auto-dep tracking, leading to venv and Java-style bundles or a lot of manual work making custom bdist_rpm command lines.
@thomasfuchs I don't think I've seen one of those before, they look cool as hell. There is a certain spooky cold feeling interacting with a terminal when the stakes are high, in Alien, Lost, Jurassic Park (book) that I started to feel just reading the photos. Neat