Potential issue with package overlap

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reading aristanetworks/cloudvision-python/issues/7 and inspect how the cloudvision distribution installs the fmp and arista packages. Confirm the conflicting package paths and define completion as installing cloudvision alongside the existing PyPI packages without overwriting their files or breaking cloudvision imports.

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Description

Installing cloudvision library also installs fmp and arista packages into the python site-packages.

There are existing pypi packages called fmp (released April 2022) and arista (released April 2009)

Installing either of these packages after installation of cloudvision will at the very least overwrite the __init__.py files written by cloudvision, causing some issues with imports in cloudvision that import code from these, though they can still be imported with absolute paths. Future releases of the packages may have file conflicts, which would overwrite the content added by cloudvision, and completely break package code using the imports.

See aristanetworks/cloudvision-python/issues/7 for further details
A solution to this issue is being actively worked on by the Arista team

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