On Monday, September 27, 2021 at 1:24:47 PM UTC-7 wst...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, September 27, 2021 at 1:06:58 PM UTC-7 Matthias Koeppe wrote: > >> On Monday, September 27, 2021 at 12:46:30 PM UTC-7 Nils Bruin wrote: >> >>> >>> Presently, >>> >>> $ sage -pip install --user ..... >>> >>> fails (at least for me, with a vanilla sage install on FC33) with >>> >>> ERROR: Can not perform a '--user' install. User site-packages are not >>> visible in this virtualenv. >>> >>> Perhaps it's worth having this? >>> >> This is deliberately disabled (look for PYTHONUSERBASE in >> src/bin/sage-env) because users tend to have random trash installed in the >> user scheme. Because these packages would take precedence over >> Sage-provided packages, this would lead to endless bug reports on the >> mailing lists. >> > > However, as I mentioned in my other email, we explicitly enable it back in > CoCalc by patching the > Sage install. [...] > I think the best solution for the official Sage distribution is to provide > an *option* for systems admins installing > Sage to all or not allow user pip installs. Probably the default should > be "no", but there should be a documented > supported way of changing the behavior to "yes". >
Much better than any of these options is to use user-defined venvs. This has been available since Sage 9.2: https://wiki.sagemath.org/ReleaseTours/sage-9.2#Reusable_wheels_for_the_Python_packages_built_by_the_Sage_distribution -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/3743857f-6b17-48e6-8496-6527882b7f3fn%40googlegroups.com.
