On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:10:34 -0800 > Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > > > > I am 100% on board with telling people "don't use `sudo pip install´". > Frankly I have been telling the pip developers to just break this for years > (see https://pip2014.com, which, much to my chagrin, still exists); `sudo > pip install´ should just exit immediately with an error; to the extent that > packagers need it, the only invocation that should work should be `sudo pip > install --i-am-building-an-operating-system´. > > This is frankly ridiculous. The problem is not the use of "sudo" or the > invocation under root, it's to install into a system Python. > Sure, but the people I tend to see using `sudo pip` are not the kind of users where that distinction is very useful. If there were a different simple, reliable way to avoid installing in system python, I would be happy to change my own recommendations during sprints, talks, etc... David
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