Why is pip adding extra dependencies to my djangoapp when i run virtualenv?

Question

I've set-uped and sourced an virtual env:

virtualenv venv --distribute

source venv/bin/activate

after this I try to install a few things:

pip install Django psycopg2 dj-database-url

I create a project and pip freeze the requirements. At this point I get two extra requirements:

Django==1.4.1
distribute==0.6.28
dj-database-url==0.2.1
psycopg2==2.4.5
wsgiref==0.1.2

Where did they come from?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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You requested to install distribute instead of setuptools by including --distribute flag while creating virtualenv. And wsgiref is installed also at start, please see Why does pip freeze report some packages in a fresh virtualenv created with --no-site-packages?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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answered Sep 25 '12 at 19:05

jasisz

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