[yocto] Python pip

[Gary Thomas]

On 2015-11-05 07:14, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> On Thursday 05 November 2015 05:39:21 Gary Thomas wrote:
>> Just curious, does anyone know why OE-core has python3-pip
>> but python-pip is relegated to meta-oe?
>
> I think it has to do with pip being supplied as part of the standard python 3
> distribution from 3.4 onwards. I think for simplicity's sake it might be
> argued that python-pip could be in the same place though.

Thanks, I'll consider sending a patch set for that.

Sadly, at this point, both packages can't be installed at the
same time as they both call the result "/usr/bin/pip".  Maybe
in keeping with the python/python3 naming, the python3 version
should be installed as pip3?

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