Re: What is your opinion on "sudo pip" fix for Fedora 27?

2017-04-26 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 26 April 2017 at 19:19, Michal Cyprian wrote: > The other possibility is to limit the pip install location change > to distutils and pip [2]. This is the "safer" option, but does > not cover all corner cases. For example, Python software built > locally using cmake or similar tools will be inst

Re: What is your opinion on "sudo pip" fix for Fedora 27?

2017-04-26 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 27 April 2017 at 11:47, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 7:13 AM, Charalampos Stratakis >> At the present time, running sudo pip3 in Fedora is not safe. >> Pip shares its installation directory with dnf, can remove >> dnf-managed files and generally break the Python 3 interpre

What is your opinion on "sudo pip" fix for Fedora 27?

2017-04-26 Thread Michal Cyprian
At the present time, running sudo pip3 in Fedora is not safe. Pip shares its installation directory with dnf, can remove dnf-managed files and generally break the Python 3 interpreter. Our first attempt to make sudo pip safe on Fedora [0] was based on using a different binary (/usr/libexec/syste