On 2025-04-17, Left Right via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: >> Also... when installing stuff with pip --user, it is always a package >> that is not installed for the system (usually not even available for >> the system). How can that "break system packages"? > > pip installs dependencies. Dependencies may disagree on the version > with the system packages.
Good point. I don't generally allow pip to install dependencies, so I forgot about that source of conflict. But as far as I can see, it still can only break stuff for the user, not for the system. The system is never going to look in my ~/.local/lib/python* directories. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
