On 2025-04-15, Thomas Passin via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:
> On Linux, at least, it's standard for pip to install into the user's > site-packages location if it's not invoked with admin privileges - even > without --user. Pip will emit a message saying so. Well, that used to be > true but nowadays Pip wants you to use the --break-system-packages flag > if you want to insist on installing into the system's Python install, > even if it's going to go into --user. I've always been a little baffled by that message when installing with --user. How can that possibly break system stuff? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
