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With Debian or Ubuntu packages, there is some quality control. Is PIP similar, or is it a complete free-for-all? Can anyone upload any code they want under any name that they want?

There seem to be some junk packages like https://pypi.python.org/pypi/opencv/0.0.1 which has the same name as thea very popular OpenCVcomputer vision framework, for example.

With Debian or Ubuntu packages, there is some quality control. Is PIP similar, or is it a complete free-for-all? Can anyone upload any code they want under any name that they want?

There seem to be some junk packages like https://pypi.python.org/pypi/opencv/0.0.1 which has the same name as the popular OpenCV framework, for example.

With Debian or Ubuntu packages, there is some quality control. Is PIP similar, or is it a complete free-for-all? Can anyone upload any code they want under any name that they want?

There seem to be some junk packages like https://pypi.python.org/pypi/opencv/0.0.1 which has the same name as a very popular computer vision framework, for example.

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MWB
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Are PIP packages curated? Is it safe to install them?

With Debian or Ubuntu packages, there is some quality control. Is PIP similar, or is it a complete free-for-all? Can anyone upload any code they want under any name that they want?

There seem to be some junk packages like https://pypi.python.org/pypi/opencv/0.0.1 which has the same name as the popular OpenCV framework, for example.