IMO we should patch pip to *not* touch (install, upgrade, uninstall,
etc.) anything in /usr directory (or /) except /usr/local. Our Python
interpreter already installs to /usr/local and so should pip.
This way:
* pip doesn't need to figure out which file can be touched,
* we can detect cause of problems just by looking at traceback
(right now the very first thing I do once someone sends me a
traceback is to look for .egg files in there (thank you ez_install!);
with pip installing/overwriting files in /usr instead of /usr/local
it's not that easy, not to mention that it will be a lot harder to
fix it after such "install")
* we'll be able to easily prove to our users that we're not insane
and we did test our stuff ("please rename
/usr/local/pythonX.Y/dist-packages to something else for few minutes
and try again")
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