I'm not a member of the SIG, but as someone who did this in the past
before learning proper practices, I would find this *extremely* helpful,
especially when running certain software that explicitly tells the user
to run this, even with it being bad practice.

A big +1 from me…

On 02/10/2017 07:31 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
> 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]
> <mailto:[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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