> why do I need to call a flag to install requirements?
Because pip is used extensively as a manual command to install something - you don't expect something like DIR or ls to automatically get its list of files to list from a DIR.txt or a ls.txt file, do you?
Because pip is used extensively as a manual command to install something - you don't expect something like DIR or ls to automatically get its list of files to list from a DIR.txt or a ls.txt file, do you?