[Bug 1237071] Re: Incompatible with virtualenv

[Lloyd Parkes]

This bug is a duplicate of #988471. Sorry for not checking for other
byobu bugs, but launchpad did search for possible duplicates and showed
me something that wasn't even close, so I figured I was first.

The user who has Python only in /usr/local has installed the Ubuntu
Byobu package without the required dependencies. I'm not sure why they
think the Byobu package should cope with this.

I think it's safe to say that software that gets installed and used is
also going to be abuse. It's the software maintainer's job to ensure
that the software can survive that abuse, but inevitably there are
limits. Using virtualenv to create a preferred (and unexpected) python
can be considered abuse. Failing to install required prerequisites is
also abuse. For some software, setting strange locales in the
environment might be considered abuse. You have to make a decision about
what sort of abuse this package can withstand and I don't think many
software maintainers are interested in making their software work in the
face of missing prerequisites.

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