pip: no-binary / no-use-wheel mismatch

--no-binary still installs a wheel if this is a non-binary wheel. So --no-binary is not an 1:1 replacement for --no-use-wheel and therefore the latter shouldn’t be marked as deprecated.

See #1891 why --no-use-wheel is still an important option.

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The correct syntax is pip install --no-binary :all: pytest 😃

xavfernandez on Oct 16, 2015

I get tricked by this all the time. I write:

 `pip install -r requirements.txt --no-binary --no-cache-dir`

The --no-cache-dir gets read as the argument to --no-binary, and pip goes and does exactly what I didn’t want.

honnibal on Mar 16, 2018

BTW, I thought this was just some emphasis issue in the docs, maybe you should better format this to make it clear the colons should be included.

schlamar on Oct 16, 2015

Based on the views above, I think what we need to do is to emphasize the existence of colons and provide some examples. I’ll make a PR later.

cjc7373 on Mar 29, 2020