Elaborate on advantages of virtualenv

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Markus Unterwaditzer 2015-01-13 23:39:10 +01:00
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@ -69,7 +69,12 @@ the simplest possible way would look something like::
alias vdirsyncer="~/vdirsyncer_env/bin/vdirsyncer
You'll have to put the last line into your ``.bashrc`` or ``.bash_profile``.
The main advantage is that you can delete the ``~/vdirsyncer_env`` folder to
uninstall vdirsyncer.
This method has two advantages:
- It separately installs all Python packages into ``~/vdirsyncer_env/``,
without relying on the system packages. This works around OS- or
distro-specific issues.
- You can delete ``~/vdirsyncer_env/`` to uninstall vdirsyncer entirely.
.. _virtualenv: https://virtualenv.readthedocs.org/