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--system-site-packages doesn't run inside snaps

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reviewing the snap-system-packages branch and the exploration of external Python dist/site-packages and site.py. Determine how --system-site-packages should expose external packages in a classic snap without breaking virtualenv containment; done means the option works inside snaps while isolation remains intact.

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This is because the intrinsic nature of isolation provided by snaps.

However, as fades is currently a "classic" snap, we can really access to external Python.

I did some exploration here, playing with getting dist/site packages of external Python and adding it to the running virtualenv inside fades (which theoretically would make it add those paths to venv's site.py, in effect providing access to "the system packages", but I couldn't really make it work... it looks I break the virtualenv containment when I do that...

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