Optimizing installs of many virtualenvs by symlinking packages

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I am also interested in this. I believe the following discussion is related:

Proposal - sharing distrbution installations in general

im picking up on https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2017-October/031738.html Hi everyone, since a while now various details of installing python packages in virtualenvs caused me grief a) typically each tox folder in a project is massive, and has a lot of duplicate files, recreating them, managing and iterating them takes quite a while b) for nicely separated deployments, each virtualenv for an application takes a few hundred megabytes - that quickly can saturate disk space …