As a onetime sysadmin, the problem with deploying into virtualenvs is that suddenly I need to maintain loads of security patches again, rather than rely on my distribution's patch management.
At a large enough place, that might be alright, since we might need to front-run or lag the distro anyway. But now I have to worry about n different Python versions and security patch versions, and it's a headache.
Give me a package of known-goodish stuff, not something which relies on lots of other fiddly stuff which I might need to build by hand, or maintain by hand.
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As a onetime sysadmin, the problem with deploying into virtualenvs is that suddenly I need to maintain loads of security patches again, rather than rely on my distribution's patch management.
At a large enough place, that might be alright, since we might need to front-run or lag the distro anyway. But now I have to worry about n different Python versions and security patch versions, and it's a headache.
Give me a package of known-goodish stuff, not something which relies on lots of other fiddly stuff which I might need to build by hand, or maintain by hand.