On 16 February 2016 at 14:55, Petr Viktorin <encu...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, what is the argument against "pip install --user"? Does that not > leave everyone happy?
See https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1668 Long story short, that's the intention, but there are a lot of questions that need(ed) to be resolved. I'm not sure if we're at a point where it's practical yet, though. (One big question in my mind is whether --user installs work as well as we hope they do - as far as I know very few people actually use them routinely...) Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig