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Remove `--find-links` in `pip freeze`

See original GitHub issue

What’s the problem this feature will solve?

pip freeze --find-links=somewhere will simply output -f somewhere at the beginning of the output: https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/8ae1bd607e9fa84d6640909dc9998a0c61a10da6/src/pip/_internal/operations/freeze.py#L59-L62

Except for history (this option exists since the freeze command and https://github.com/pypa/pip/commit/3d32c196b53bedf28860df4f29d0ed5bc8bec245), there is no reason to special case it and not allow --index-url, --pre and all the other options allowed in a requirements file.

Describe the solution you’d like

Deprecate and remove it.

Alternative Solutions

Keep it.

Additional context

Deprecating it would ease the transition for #7157

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:10 (8 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

jaap3commented, Nov 4, 2020

No worries, the -f line in the pip freeze output has slightly bothered me for a while so I’m glad it’s going away 😃

1reaction

xavfernandezcommented, Jul 13, 2021

I’ll work on it, thanks for the reminder.

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