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Replace per distro-packaged dependencies with a common reproducible environment (pip/virtualenv/alternatives for Python).

• Embedding Python code in the repo (via git submodules or subtrees),
• Installing at build time via pip (this is the way that Dashboard works for Front-end packages)

This would also require modifying the method PyModule::load in the file src/mgr/PyModule.cc to look for packages into the local directory (via sys.path): <mgr_module_path>/site-packages/ (or similar). The default mgr sys path is:

mgr =
$WORKSPACE/ceph-api/src/pybind/mgr
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages
/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
/usr/lib/python3.8/dist-packages

$(vstart_pythonpath)

/usr/lib/python38.zip
/usr/lib/python3.8
/usr/lib/python3.8/lib-dynload