Add option for ~/.local directory

[DUOLabs333]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

pdm has a -g option, to edit the "global" Python environment, eg. the one in /usr. However, there's no option for the local python environment, the one in ~/.local

Describe the solution you'd like

Maybe an option like --local or --user to act on that directory?

[DUOLabs333]

How does -g even work? ~/.pdm/global-project doesn't have anything that would point to /usr.

[frostming]

How does -g even work? ~/.pdm/global-project doesn't have anything that would point to /usr.

~/.pdm/global-project/.pdm.toml also stores the Python path, and the packages will be installed into the site-packages of the selected Python interpreter

[DUOLabs333]

Is global-project special? I.e, can I make my own folder that will point to another site-packages?

[frostming]

No you can point to another project dir by -gp <project_path>, where global-project is the default location when -p isn't given.

[DUOLabs333]

How would I remove/add packages? Since they're not in the pyproject.toml it fails with does not exist in default dependencies.

[frostming]

How would I remove/add packages? Since they're not in the pyproject.toml it fails with does not exist in default dependencies.

If you agree the env should be kept in sync with pyproject.toml, then pdm sync -g --clean will remove all packages not needed.

[DUOLabs333]

But that would remove all the packages already installed in site-packages.

[frostming]

That is the meaning of the existence of the global project: track all, not some packages installed in site-packages.
If there are any packages needed but not listed in pdm.lock, add them.

[DUOLabs333]

So you are saying that pdm sync will just add all the packages in site-packages to global-project/pyproject.toml?

[DUOLabs333]

Doing pdm sync -g gives me Lock file does not exist, nothing to install.

[frostming]

So you are saying that pdm sync will just add all the packages in site-packages to global-project/pyproject.toml?

Sync is from pyproject.toml to site-packages and not reverse.

Doing pdm sync -g gives me Lock file does not exist, nothing to install.

Did you generate a lock file in the first place? Use pdm install -g to generate.

You seems to be taking -g as some kind of black magic, but it is just like a normal project, except that the packages are installed into the global site-packages, instead of the project level __pypackages__. All packages must be listed in pdm.lock, which is generated from pyproject.toml. Adding and removing packages must be via PDM. In this way the global site-packages are fully tracked and can be easily rebuilt from scratch, with a pair of pyproject.toml and pdm.lock files.

[DUOLabs333]

Ok, so you are saying the point of --global is to add new packages to site-packages, not to manage old packages already there.

[frostming]

Yeah, you need to add them to pyproject.toml yourself if you want to manage the old packages

[DUOLabs333]

Is there any way to import them in or do I really have to add them one by one? Maybe offer a pyproject.toml format?

[frostming]

You only need to add top-level dependencies, run pdm list -g --graph to show the dependency tree, and add root nodes to pyproject.toml's dependencies array, each item is a PEP 508 requirement string. Take the example of pdm/pyproject.toml.

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[DUOLabs333]

I found a way to import the exact versions already installed -- make a new folder names test. pdm list -g --freeze > test/requirements.txt. cd test; pdm init. Then, copy the lock file into global-project. Maybe there should be a script for onboarding (I'm not sure how it would be completed) -g?