easy_install is yet another single-language package manager. It doesn't interop with the legitimate OS package manager's database of installed dependencies, and your admins probably have very little experience with it. Best to run it on one sacrificial box and then turn whatever it leaves behind into a real RPM package (or whatever your platform wants).
You can set things up so that easy_install installs into a special root. And you nearly always should.
The closest to an exception I can come up with is when you rely on image-based installs instead of package-by-package upgrades. And even then I can't manage to convince myself.
No exceptions at all for individual developers' machines.
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easy_install is yet another single-language package manager. It doesn't interop with the legitimate OS package manager's database of installed dependencies, and your admins probably have very little experience with it. Best to run it on one sacrificial box and then turn whatever it leaves behind into a real RPM package (or whatever your platform wants).
You can set things up so that easy_install installs into a special root. And you nearly always should.
The closest to an exception I can come up with is when you rely on image-based installs instead of package-by-package upgrades. And even then I can't manage to convince myself.
No exceptions at all for individual developers' machines.