On Thu, Apr 20, 2017, at 15:48, Mats Wichmann wrote: > On 04/20/2017 01:24 PM, bruce wrote: > > Hey guys.. > > > > Wanted to get thoughts? > > > > On an IRC chat.. someone stated emphatically... > > > > Never do a "sudo pip install --upgrade..." > > > > The claim was that it could cause issues, enought to seriously > > (possibly) damage the OS.. > > > > So, is this true?? > > It wouldn't be recommended... if your Python is packaged by your > distribution, you really shouldn't mess with the parts that come with > those packages. The odds of breaking anything badly are probably low > (especially if what you're upgrading are the typical two - pip and > distutils), but still..
My mental model of pip had always been that it would maintain a parallel site-packages directory in /usr/local, rather than messing with anything in /usr (which belongs to the distribution packaging system). That's certainly where any *newly*-installed packages seem to end up. Even learning in general why using pip as root is a bad idea, I had still thought this was the case. Why isn't it? _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor