On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 01:23:53PM +0100, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
> [Barry Warsaw, 2014-03-19]
> > TL;DR: Let's re-enable the ensurepip module in Python 3.4, and possibly
> > address some usability issues. We should descend en masse on Montreal
> > and
> > stage a revolt at Pycon. :)
>
> IMO our ensurepip.py should look similar to this:
>
> | try:
> | from pip import *
> | except ImportError:
> | raise Exception('Please ask administrator to install python3-pip
> package.'
> | ' Note that installing packages system-wide using pip
> is'
> | ' considered harmful, please do not report Python
> related'
> | ' bugs in Debian bugtracker if you decide to do that.')
>
> IMO we should warn users that they can^W will break their systems and
> `sudo pip install ...` should raise an exception if
> --i-will-not-blame-debian option is not enabled.
I recently had to clean up after a sysadmin, previously explicitly
warned not to, used "sudo pip install ...". I think the option should
require an argument which must match with a randomly generated string.
That way only the NSA could ever actually use the option as only they
own all the random numbers.
</sarcasim>
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