Re: Defeat Python "Virtual Environment" in Fedora ?

Piergiorgio Sartor <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:51:15 +0100
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc,comp.lang.python
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/03/2026 21.19, Pancho wrote:
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> My understanding is different. My understanding is that a venv only uses 
> packages installed locally in the venv.  It shouldn't default to a 
> global package if it is not found in the venv.

This happened to me, so I removed almost
all (non critical) system packages.

> (caveat: it may use default site installed packages if told to do so).

Maybe it was my initial setup like this.

In any case, what I wanted to say is that
the venv is not like a virtual machine,
but just a different module search order.

bye,

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piergiorgio