> On Sep 25, 2014, at 4:54 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 07:34:31 +0100 > Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 25 September 2014 02:08, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >>>> Indeed. Moving towards having --user as the norm is definitely >>>> something we want to look at for pip. One of the biggest concerns is >>>> how well-exercised the whole user site directory area is in practice. >>> >>> What do you mean by well-exercised? >> >> Basically, although --user is available in pip (and the underlying >> facilities in Python have been around for some time), it's difficult >> to gauge how many people are using them, and as a result what level of >> testing has happened in real-life situations. > > I'm using it often. I'm also unsure how broken it could be. The user > site-packages is just another site-packages directory. >
Broken like the prefix problem :) Basically people have Python in a ton of different configurations and it’s hard to figure out if —user will work out of the box in all of them or not. --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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