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@assimilateborg @MikeElgan Well... maybe. NVIDIA seems to be lending money to the frontier corporations in order to buy its own hardware, creating circular spending that inflates its stock price.

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@andrewnez But I can't logically describe how PyPI could offer something more stable than it does. Who would define the release cadence? What is a set? In what way is the registry better suited to defining a set or a cadence than the application developers that pull components from it?

@andrewnez The only difference I can logically describe between Debian and a registry is that a stable release of Debian is a *set* of components.

So it might make sense for "pip" to have the option to update a venv by installing the newest release of each component's release stream without rebasing anything in the set.

@andrewnez Whether we are talking about registries or distributions, a mechanism exists to provide a selector. If you provide a selector, you expect to follow a specific release stream. And if you don't provide a selector, then you will get whatever stream is newest.

@andrewnez I don't think that's logically consistent.

If I ask a coworker to "install Debian", they will most likely install the latest release of Debian, because I didn't provide a selector of any kind. If I run "podman pull debian" I will get the latest release of Debian.

So, if "pip install requests" installing the latest stable release means that the registry is unstable, then the same terminology would classify container registries and distributions as "unstable."