On Feb 16, 2016, at 06:01 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: >I know we had such an issue where pip accidentally modified system installed >files, maybe Barry still remembers the details ...
I don't, but I hope that should not be a problem these days, with modern pip on modern Debian/Ubuntu systems. We prevent pip from installing in system locations in various ways, including making --user the default. I don't think we're doing anything that isn't at least within the pip roadmap. E.g. --user will probably someday be the default in stock pip, but because of reasons it hasn't happened yet. IIRC, Donald was also talking about better ways to detect system owned files, so pip would also refuse to overwrite them. Cheers, -Barry
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