On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 18:25, Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> wrote: > I mean, this is _precisely_ what PEP 370 defines (including the "-s" > option and PYTHONNOUSERSITE env variable to provide that one-way isolation). > > Is the problem that pip doesn't use it by default?
Note that these days, pip *does* use usersite by default if site-packages isn't writable. Of course, if users run pip under sudo, that invalidates that mechanism :-( Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/UE7W7IFPNAPTU64TNTHXZ5GUCLOSMUJV/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
