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[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's saner, not perfect. With virtualenvs it does basically what you describe except that it re-downloads everything for every virtualenv, but that does not typically matter much since it's not downloading a billion dependencies.

With NPM there's no choice but to have hundreds of duplicates installed for every project, that's not just inefficient but it is a security, maintainability, and auditability nightmare.