On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:12:19 -0400, Thomas Passin 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'm not sure if the restriction > will be in place given that the OP built his own Python version.
Is that pip or a distro's version of pip? On Fedora I get the message about defaulting to user. On Ubuntu I get a message to use a venv or if I really want a global install to use something like 'pip install python3- black'. Ubuntu's is pip 24.2, Fedor's is 24.3.1 but neither of them show '--break-system-packages' in --help. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
