On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:10:34 -0800 Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > > I am 100% on board with telling people "don't use `sudo pip install´". > Frankly I have been telling the pip developers to just break this for years > (see https://pip2014.com, which, much to my chagrin, still exists); `sudo pip > install´ should just exit immediately with an error; to the extent that > packagers need it, the only invocation that should work should be `sudo pip > install --i-am-building-an-operating-system´.
This is frankly ridiculous. The problem is not the use of "sudo" or the invocation under root, it's to install into a system Python. So the solution should be to flag the system Python as not suitable for using pip into, not to forbid using pip under root. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
