Having been badly burned by sudo pip install in the past, I agree that a
warning is appropriate, with a suggestion to use pip install --user

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 1:28 PM Tomas Orsava <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi!
> On the last FESCo meeting while discussing the sudo pip Fedora [Change],
> maxamillion proposed that it might be useful to issue a warning when a
> user tries to run pip with root privileges--as in most cases it's not
> what they should be doing (`pip install --user` is usually more
> appropriate).
>
> What do you think?
>
> [Change] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Making_sudo_pip_safe
>
> Regards,
> Tomas Orsava
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