From 7795a4e86c641d288c723b017a9df32f6ab329d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "B. Bergeron" <me@bbergeron.xyz>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:17:09 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Improve documentation regarding pip install step

---
 Dockerfile | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 660d82f75..bc4be83dd 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -47,11 +47,15 @@ USER comfyui
 RUN python -m venv .venv
 ENV PATH="/comfyui/.venv/bin:$PATH"
 
-# Install Python dependencies. This step is also performed automatically by the
-# entrypoint script, but doing it at build time reduces startup time on the
-# first run.
-COPY requirements.txt ./
-RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
+# Install ComfyUI's Python dependencies. Although dependency keeping is also
+# performed at startup, building ComfyUI's base dependencies into the image
+# significantly speeds up each containers' first run.
+#
+# Since this step takes a long time to complete, it's performed early to take
+# advantage of Docker's build cache, thereby accelerating subsequent builds.
+COPY requirements.txt manager_requirements.txt ./
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --disable-pip-version-check \
+    -r requirements.txt
 
 # Install ComfyUI and link the data mount points.
 COPY . .