#14243: Try not to pick up user versions of things like numpy, mpl
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Reporter: kcrisman | Owner:
Type: defect | GeorgSWeber
Priority: critical | Status: closed
Component: build | Milestone: sage-6.4
Keywords: | Resolution: fixed
Authors: John Palmieri | Merged in:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers: Buck Evan
Branch: | Work issues:
e35ebe9bb554e4f00bcd0c4eabe91cb196997a1a | Commit:
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by was):
I made a horrible typo. I meant "It makes it very, very painful for
anybody to ever install Python packages and use them **with** Sage,
without actually modifying a Sage install."
This is an absolutely massive problem with SageMathCloud, where there is
one Sage install and (literally) 15,000 users on a single computer that
use that Sage install. They can't all have their own copy of Sage. So
when they install packages (often from pip) to use *with* Sage, they have
to use the --user flag. My solution is that I now have a fork of Sage
that removes the code from this ticket.
https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc-
sage/commit/7c9cfd095463091bcf41e1c6ea6e8eebfb61f00c
This works for me, I guess. However, I doubt I'm the only person with
this problem.
I think the right solution in this case should be better educate people
about how to control their Python packaging. For example, for those ask
posts, and this problem, we should instead have something in the README
about PYTHONNOUSERSITE=yes, and a link to the relevant Python docs.
Telling the person with the problem to use that environment variable would
have solved the problem for them.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/14243#comment:13>
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