Nitya Kumar Sharma

+1, this feature will be very useful for us for creating reproducible environments.

We are basically trying to get parity with https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/cli/pip_install/#obtaining-information-about-what-was-installed. The goal is to get the list of files that will be downloaded along with their SHA hashes (without actually creating...

Yes, `--dry-run` + `--report` has a very detailed machine-readable output. https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/installation-report/#example

> where you're collecting the output of dry run as part of a larger environment management process We have this use case as well. We use --dry-run with --report to...