diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index bbb71b8..6ed315f 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -35,4 +35,9 @@ Example $ pipreqs /home/project/location Successfuly saved requirements file in: /home/project/location/requirements.txt +Why not pip freeze? +------------------- +- ``pip freeze`` only saves the packages that are installed with ``pip install`` in your environment. +- pip freeze saves all packages in the environment including those that you don't use in your current project. (if you don't have virtualenv) +- and sometimes you just need to create requiremetns.txt for a new project without installing modules.