On Monday, February 4, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Richard Jones wrote: > On 5 February 2013 12:36, Nick Coghlan <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > [snip "sudo pip" common & bad] > > > > If pip used the user site packages by default (when running as anyone > > other than root), that dangerous UI flow wouldn't happen. > > > > Thoughts? > > I think it's a great idea. > > Perhaps also having pip warn about being run under sudo (a warning > that can be shut up simply) might not be a bad idea? > I think the biggest problem with this idea is going to be backwards compatibility. It's a good idea but it might need to be done as a "if we don't have permissions to write to the site-packages directory fail with a good error message and recommend user-packages or virtualenv.
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