Nick Coghlan added the comment: As David hinted at, the pip GUI should *not* support privilege escalation on Linux - needing to do so indicates someone is attempting to install into the system Python, and the GUI should never do that. If there's no active virtual environment, it should do a user install by default.
(The only reason pip doesn't work that way by default is due to backwards compatibility constraints affecting tools that assume that root can install into system Python installations without any additional flags) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue27051> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
