> On Apr 27, 2017, at 2:32 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Debian and derivatives already mitigate the potential harm for these > cases by requiring the "--install-layout=deb" option to be passed to > get distutils to install into the system directories rather than doing > it by default: https://wiki.debian.org/Python#Deviations_from_upstream > <https://wiki.debian.org/Python#Deviations_from_upstream> > > Their approach means that any harm caused by "sudo pip install X" can > subsequently be fully reversed by doing "sudo pip uninstall X".
For whatever it’s worth, at some point in time I plan on attempting to formalize the Debian solution (or something akin to it) within a PEP and try to get baked in support for it in Python. I also feel required to point out that ``sudo pip uninstall`` isn’t always enough, because while the two systems install to different locations, pip currently will uninstall the files in /usr when installing to /usr/local. They’ve patched their copy of pip to refuse to uninstall files from /usr, but upstream pip will still do it. Again, something I hope to get sorted at some point (and of course, an upgrade totally restores the files in /usr). — Donald Stufft
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