[issue43796] "install" package on PyPI

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: And maybe discuss with pip people why 'pip install pip install zyx' is not caught as an error. -- nosy: +terry.reedy resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue43796] "install" package on PyPI

Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment: This seems to have been discussed : https://github.com/pypa/pypi-support/issues/451 -- nosy: +xtreak ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue43796] "install" package on PyPI

Christian Heimes added the comment: BPO is just for CPython bugs. Packaging and PyPI are handled by different teams and trackers. Please use https://github.com/pypa/pypi-support -- nosy: +christian.heimes ___ Python tracker

[issue43796] "install" package on PyPI

New submission from Jared Ondricek : I recently accidentally typed "pip install pip install " and it installed a package called "install" that has 1 star on GitHub. It is also in use by 2.3k repositories according to the GitHub dependency graph view. I don't think it's malicious, but it does s