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python-argcomplete formula is mostly useless
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BurnerWah
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It's meant as a dependency for other formulae. They know where to find it because brew will tell them if they depend on argcomplete. |
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Nothing depends on it |
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Then it should be deprecated and ultimately removed. See https://docs.brew.sh/Python-for-Formula-Authors |
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Deprecated in Homebrew/homebrew-core#267535. |
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python-argcompleteformula installs argcomplete using thevirtualenv_install_with_resourcesmethod, which doesn't actually make any sense for argcomplete.argcompletehas to be in the shared python site-packages folder for other programs to use it, which is the whole point of argcomplete. It's actually pretty useless on its own because it can only complete the commands it provides, and all those commands are intended for setting up argcomplete for other programs so on their own they're pretty useless.The package should be switched to not using a virtualenv.
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