On May 2, 2013, at 7:17 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3 May 2013 09:08, "Donald Stufft" <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > > > On May 2, 2013, at 6:48 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> "pip --user" manipulates the per-user directories (and I believe I filed a > >> ticket a while back suggesting it should migrate to the model distil now > >> uses). > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Nick. > > > > I don't think it makes sense for pip to do this tbh. > > Language level installers should leave "/usr" alone by default, as that part > of the filesystem is the domain of system packages. > > Cheers, > Nick. Out of the three primary OSs only one of them has a concept of system packages. Regardless it's a major change in behavior and isn't a clear cut right or wrong choice. It's going to need a stronger justification than that to break backwards compatibility in such a large way.
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