Hey Barry, I don't really understand how developers (talking about pip
users, not upstream) are bombarding you about that change.

Indeed, we are transforming one use case which can't work:
Remember that the patch only changes the behavior when running pip install as a 
non root user, which was trying to install (and gave a stracktrace) in 
/usr/local, where it can't write. It's only in that case (to not break scripts 
in particular or people running sudo pip install) that we default --user, 
making a use case where pip was giving an error to one where it installs 
package. This seems to me to only be a win to developers, not a drawback. Do I 
miss anything?

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