alain williams writes:
So: installing mailman with apt was, from my PoV, a sensible thing to do.
Of course it is a sensible thing for you to do. Nobody is telling you not to do that. Package managers are a wonderful invention, and if the package available meets your needs, use the manager you're most comfortable with. We just say if you want *us* to help you with somebody else's package, you have to expect that we're not going to do as good a job as if you use our recommended version.
We get bug reports about the documentation all the time, we fix them as we have time available -- I merged six of them last night. But that's not what's happening here. You said that the virtual environment installation instructions are not easy to understand. On the one hand, what are we supposed to fix? On the other, why would you expect them to be easy to understand when you say that "python3 -m pip install mailman" is more effort to learn than you're willing to spend when you already know "apt"? There's nothing wrong with preferring apt because you know it, but don't you see when you say the virtualenv installation is too hard to understand, we're not going to take that as an actionable bug report?
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