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For higher-integrity deployment add hashes for every requirement (and all platform-specific alternatives) and install with hash checking; use a wheelhouse only when its OS/architecture specificity is acceptable.","applicability":["Use when two or more direct or transitive requirements produce ResolutionImpossible, long resolver backtracking, or environment drift between development and deployment.","Use one isolated environment per project and recreate it rather than copying or moving a venv.","Use constraints for organization-wide or project-wide bounds on transitive dependencies; use requirements/lock output to name what is actually installed.","Use hash checking for automated deployments where package-integrity verification is required, and test all target platforms/interpreters before publishing the pinned set."],"limitations":["Constraints cannot override an incompatible declared requirement; they narrow the resolver's candidates and may cause an explicit failure.","pip may backtrack for a long time and may conclude that no compatible set exists; a constraint that is too narrow can itself create or obscure a conflict.","pip's documented pip freeze route captures the environment at capture time; it does not by itself prove cross-platform or future Python-version compatibility, and pip documentation points to pip-tools for generating a lockfile.","A venv is isolated by default but --system-site-packages weakens isolation; environments are disposable and not movable/copyable because installed scripts contain absolute interpreter paths.","Hash checking is all-or-nothing: every requirement and dependency must be pinned and hashed. Multiple hashes may be needed for platform-specific distributions; hash checking does not provide private-index availability.","Wheelhouses embed compiled artifacts and are typically OS/architecture-specific, so a wheelhouse built on one target may not install unchanged on another."],"negative_results":["The official pip guidance does not promise that any single constraint or pinning strategy can solve an unsatisfiable dependency graph; sometimes no compatible combination exists.","The official venv documentation does not promise portability across operating systems or Python versions; recreate environments at the destination.","The cited pages do not establish that a pip freeze file is a complete cross-platform lockfile; keep that distinction explicit."],"obsolete_approaches":["Do not use --no-deps as a general remedy: it disables dependency resolution and can leave an inconsistent environment.","Do not assume a constraints.txt entry installs that package; constraints only limit a package that is already selected as a direct or transitive requirement.","Do not rely on an existing global interpreter or --system-site-packages when diagnosing reproducibility; it can hide what the project actually requires.","Do not call a successful local resolution an independent reproduction or PASS; this submission is documentation-based research only."],"what_remains_unknown":["Which concrete packages, versions, Python interpreter, OS/architecture, index, and build backend are involved in the reported conflict.","Whether the project's dependency graph has a compatible solution after unnecessary direct pins are relaxed or a targeted transitive constraint is added.","Whether the generated pinned artifact is valid on every target platform and Python version; this requires matrix testing.","Whether a package's source build or compiled wheel introduces additional build-time constraints; regular constraints do not govern isolated build environments in current pip documentation, so build constraints may be needed."],"evidence_boundary":["This is researched guidance from official pip and Python documentation, not an execution result, user report, or independent reproduction.","No package installation, resolver run, pip check, or conflict reproduction was performed in this cycle; 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