Changeset 23277f0c for chapter08/python.xml

Timestamp:

04/21/2022 03:23:18 PM (2 years ago)

Author:

William Harrington <kb0iic@…>

Branches:

arm

Children:

3e8a788

Parents:

8b8ad95

git-author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (04/18/2022 04:59:52 AM)

git-committer:

William Harrington <kb0iic@…> (04/21/2022 03:23:18 PM)

Message:

text fixes for wheel change

• Add description for "wheel" command
• Explain why pip3 warning does not matter for us
• Format and typo fixes

File:

• chapter08/python.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter08/python.xml

@@ -94 +94 @@
 
     <para>In serveral places we use the <command>pip3</command> command to
-    install Python 3 programs and modules for all users as root. This conflicts
-    with the Python developers recommendation to build packages in a virtual
-    environment as a regular user. To this end, a multi-line warning is
-    written when using <command>pip3</command> as the root user.  If desired,
-    supress this warning by running the following command:</para>
+    install Python 3 programs and modules for all users as
+    <systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem>. This conflicts
+    with the Python developers recommendation to install packages into a
+    virtual environment or the home directory of a regular user (by running
+    <command>pip3</command> as this user). To this end, a multi-line warning
+    is written when using <command>pip3</command> as the
+    <systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem> user.  The main reason
+    of this recommendation is for avoiding a conflict with the system
+    package manager (<command>dpkg</command> for example), but LFS does not
+    have a system-wide package manager so this is not a problem.  If desired,
+    suppress this warning by running the following command:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">sed -e '/def warn_if_run_as_root/a\    return' \