Option for the list command not to go out to the internet

[halloleo]

How would this feature be useful?

When using pipx while the system has no internet connection, pipx list takes an awful long time because before printing teh list of packages it tries to upgrade the shared libraries.

Describe the solution you'd like

The main purpose of the list command is to list what's there, so if I know I have no internet I should be able to say "Just give me the list. I don't care about doing other maintenance things." because these maintenance things won't work in any case.

Describe the solution you'd like
An option like --no-maintenance or --dont-update for the list command.

[gaborbernat]

PR welcome.

[Gitznik]

I've had a quick look at this. From what I can see the only network connections during this command are in the shared_libs utility, that is called during verify_shared_libs.

While that step is simple enough to skip when a flag is provided, I'm wondering if there's a good way to verify in a test that the command does not attempt to make any network connections, especially in subprocesses. Happy to hear suggestions.

I'll work on this this weekend.

[halloleo]

Cool. Glad to read the problem happens only in shard_libs.

Regarding a test: Maybe checking how long the command takes when it is running without network connection would give an indication: When it takes a time similar to the network timeout duration, it is probably trying to each the network...