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| author | Pradyun S. Gedam <pradyunsg@gmail.com> | 2017-05-19 17:09:48 +0530 |
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| committer | Pradyun S. Gedam <pradyunsg@gmail.com> | 2017-05-19 17:09:48 +0530 |
| commit | 375ed4d3fcf2679dfcd011c3441caa05e5b5c94a (patch) | |
| tree | fbc543ca9adfc14c85b9696ae7684f1a43c2b664 /docs/user_guide.rst | |
| parent | f16de428633cfda42de9be56b4674172bce7279c (diff) | |
| download | pip-375ed4d3fcf2679dfcd011c3441caa05e5b5c94a.tar.gz | |
Switch default upgrade strategy to only-if-needed
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/user_guide.rst b/docs/user_guide.rst index 6d5d9a1e3..daff8a3e2 100644 --- a/docs/user_guide.rst +++ b/docs/user_guide.rst @@ -486,9 +486,9 @@ strategies supported: the new parent requirements - ``only-if-needed``: upgrades a dependency only if it does not satisfy the new parent requirements - -Currently, the default strategy is ``eager``, which was the strategy prior to -the ``--upgrade-strategy`` option being added. + +The default strategy is ``only-if-needed``. This was changed in pip 10.0 due to +the breaking nature of ``eager`` when upgrading conflicting dependencies. As an historic note, an earlier "fix" for getting the ``only-if-needed`` behaviour was:: |