I'm not a member of the SIG, but as someone who did this in the past before learning proper practices, I would find this *extremely* helpful, especially when running certain software that explicitly tells the user to run this, even with it being bad practice.
A big +1 from me… On 02/10/2017 07:31 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > Having been badly burned by sudo pip install in the past, I agree that a > warning is appropriate, with a suggestion to use pip install --user > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 1:28 PM Tomas Orsava <tors...@redhat.com > <mailto:tors...@redhat.com>> wrote: > > Hi! > On the last FESCo meeting while discussing the sudo pip Fedora [Change], > maxamillion proposed that it might be useful to issue a warning when a > user tries to run pip with root privileges--as in most cases it's not > what they should be doing (`pip install --user` is usually more > appropriate). > > What do you think? > > [Change] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Making_sudo_pip_safe > > Regards, > Tomas Orsava > _______________________________________________ > python-devel mailing list -- python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > <mailto:python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to > python-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > <mailto:python-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org> > > > > _______________________________________________ > python-devel mailing list -- python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflo...@gmail.com
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