<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 3, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Nick Coghlan <<a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr">I would also be relatively happy for pip to refuse the temptation to guess if run globally and require an explicit --user or --system whenever it is run outside a virtual environment. However, I think it's better to make the typical "pip install whatever" work for most unprivileged users without requiring elevated privileges.</p><p dir="ltr">I agree the proposed exception for root doesn't make sense so I withdraw that idea, even though installing things into root's home directory is a little strange.</p><p dir="ltr">As far as Debian's dist-packages setup goes, that's their workaround for this misfeature of the current Python packaging ecosystem.</p><p dir="ltr">Cheers,<br>
Nick.</p>
</blockquote></div>How do you determine "run globally"?<br><div>
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