No option to skip installing setuptools/distribute altogether.

[vbabiy]

It would be nice to skip both; instead I ended up with this hack when I wanted a specific version of setuptools in a virtualenv but had distribute installed globablly:

#!/bin/sh

SETUPTOOLS=specific-setuptools-version.egg

/path/to/virtualenv/bin/pip uninstall distribute

/path/to/virtualenv/bin/python -c "import sys,os; sys.path.insert(0,os.path.abspath('$SETUPTOOLS')); from setuptools.command.easy_install import bootstrap; sys.exit(bootstrap())"

What would have been ideal in my situation would have been options to skip installation of setuptools; and an option that took various eggs to pre-install instead?

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/ianb/virtualenv/issue/34
• Originally Reported By: Anonymous
• Originally Created At: 2010-05-05 00:12:49

[vbabiy]

Issue #20 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.

option-to

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Original Comment By: Jannis Leidel

[vbabiy]

Is there any support for providing an option to omit setuptools/distribute? If
there is I would like to take a shot at a patch.

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Original Comment By: Kelsey Hightower

[gaborbernat]

I think this has been done via https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/reference/#cmdoption-no-setuptools