Comment # 4 on bug 1201041 from Matej Cepl

I completely agree that 1) is out of the question, because the ever growing
dependencies of pip are just killing us.

Obviously, number 3) is a viable option, but it feels too much like a
workaround for me, rather than the proper fix of the problem. Manuel, if you
have somewhere the branch where you test this, how difficult it would be to try
to do 2)? If it works, I would certainly push it to SLE-15 (probably SP3 and
SP4, right?).

CC (just FYI): Steve Kowalik