Bug#725848: python-pip: default install method for non-root users should be --user

Please don’t change the default. There is no way in pip to turn that flag *off* again once it's turned on and any flag added by Debian will be Debian specific and confuse people. We (pip) plan to make this change on our own at which point it will then be able to be done in a consistent way. ---

Bug#725848: python-pip: default install method for non-root users should be --user

On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:47:54 -0500 Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: Please don’t change the default. There is no way in pip to turn that flag *off* again once it's turned on and any flag added by Debian will be Debian specific and confuse people. We (pip) plan to make this change on our

Bug#725848: python-pip: default install method for non-root users should be --user

See also Bug #692108 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692108 As i said there, python-pip (Debian package) is totally useless as it is: the only reasson i'd like to have an extra (Python-)package installer is because I'd like to be able to install Python packages from the

Bug#725848: python-pip: default install method for non-root users should be --user

Package: python-pip Version: 1.4.1-2 Severity: normal Whenever I run pip install, I get an error about not being able to write to /usr/local. Since I'm not running pip as root, pip should understand that I can't write to /usr/local and enable the --user option, which installs to