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> desire to establish a one-stop-shop for all Python users, Rye provides a unified experience to install and manages Python installations

This seems an impossible task on linux, where yum/apt packages are installed long before any higher-level python tools like poetry or rye. With the continual sprawl of "one tool to rule them all" in Py & Js, I'm thankful for Go being a much more consistent ecosystem.

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Rye isn't aiming to replace apt. Rye is just aiming to do the same as Go, having one tool to manage dependencies. In current ecosystem there are many many different tools tho manage Python project's dependencies unfortunately.

Rye is never going to replace apt. There are too many system dependencies and people do not want to deal with multiple package managers in most cases. I suspect even within Python, there will never be one tool. Go is materially different, because it is the language and tooling wrapped into one. Python would have to have the solid tooling built into the CLI, so that we don't feel the need for tools like Rye to begin with. Python is already too fractured to ever realize this, imho.

We have been moving away from python packagers towards linux packagers because it is trivial to mirror them internally. We do this because external mirrors have been unreliable and we have full control over when updates get rolled out without having to pin every version (the mirror effectively pins them)

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