On May 3, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would also be relatively happy for pip to refuse the temptation to guess if > run globally and require an explicit --user or --system whenever it is run > outside a virtual environment. However, I think it's better to make the > typical "pip install whatever" work for most unprivileged users without > requiring elevated privileges. > > I agree the proposed exception for root doesn't make sense so I withdraw that > idea, even though installing things into root's home directory is a little > strange. > > As far as Debian's dist-packages setup goes, that's their workaround for this > misfeature of the current Python packaging ecosystem. > > Cheers, > Nick. > How do you determine "run globally"? ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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