On Fri, May 25, 2018, at 5:11 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: > As an user, I want to use "sudo pip install" because packages > installed in /usr (or /usr/local) are accessible without having to > touch PYTHONPATH: the install directory is part of the default > sys.path.
This is also true for "pip install --user", at least on the systems I'm familiar with. There are options to disable 'user site packages', but it's enabled by default. It's more annoying for scripts - on common Linux distributions, the user scripts location ~/.local/bin is not on PATH by default. Thomas -- Distutils-SIG mailing list distutils-sig@python.org https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/2XEH7R56Y63D72BZBAWRRJ33HPIKCWZH/