Am 17.03.2018 um 11:07 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus:
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>> - sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix would still point to the store, not to
>>   the profile.  This might break Python appications expecting
>>   site-packages to be below sys.prefix.
> Is this an actual problem?  Do you know of applications that make this
> assumption?  If so, is this unfixable?

I'm not aware of any actual problem.

> I’m not too hopeful about this variant, but I’m rather ignorant about
> venvs.  My main concern is about whether it will still be possible for
> users to create venvs from a subset of their installed packages when we
> generate a pyvenv.cfg by default.

venvs never contain a "subset of installed packages". They either
include all system site-packages or none of them.

But as I've already written, generating a pyvenv.cfg for this case will
not work as we need it.

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