'pip install the minimum-impact historical package version
TLDR: I want the ability to pip install whichever version of a package will require the minimal changes to my currently installed versions.
Long version:
I support a pretty complex base container for geoscience research.
My users sometimes fork the environment to add a new package for their specific use-case. The pip install of the new package often causes a cascade of upgrades, which inevitably breaks something. pip install --no-deps is no help -- it just means the new package won't work, because it's missing dependencies.
What I always seem to end up doing is manually walking the version history of the new package, looking for a version that will cause minimum disturbance to my existing packages.
Is there any way of automatically finding this "minimal-disturbance" historical version of the new package?
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