On Sunday, October 10, 2021 at 1:57:55 PM UTC-7 Nils Bruin wrote: > I think it is worthwhile to have something like "sage --pip install --user > ..." work [...] The target audience also has no knowledge of venv [...] >
The user scheme (--user) is an outdated mechanism. Python, by design, disables it in virtual environments. https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/installing-packages/#installing-to-the-user-site This is not specific to Sage. It could, however, be a good idea to extend https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/source.html#installation-in-a-multiuser-environment to give advice to system administrators who install Sage systemwide. They may want to advise their users that they can use a startup script (https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/repl/startup.html) to add to the search path; and that they can use "sage -pip install --prefix=/SOME/WHERE" to install in their custom install directory. It will then be the system administrator's problem when the accumulated stuff in a user's custom install directory stops an upgraded installation of Sage from working. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/4bb087cd-a063-40ec-b5e1-5e7335e838a9n%40googlegroups.com.
