On Mar 21, 2014, at 02:43 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: >Also yea pip in the system Python currently kind of sucks. I want to make this >better eventually! I just don't know how yet or have the cycles to spend >investigating it.
One of the things I'd like to see, in addition to supporting platform-specified system-level installation directories (i.e. /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/dist-packages on Debian), is an upstream switch to tell Python to ignore this directory, mirroring e.g. -s. That way, if people say "Well I just pip installed foo into /usr/local and it broke my system" we'd be able to respond "you better use pythonX.Y --dont-blame-us". This is especially important for system services written in Python, and it's analogous to how we recommend using -Es on the shebang line for many of these services. Or put another way: it's okay if users need extra stuff that the OS doesn't package, and it's okay if they want to install them in such a way that all users will benefit from them, but the OS must have a way to isolate its environment from these user choices. Cheers, -Barry
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