[Catalog-sig] Use user-specific site-packages by default?

[Richard Jones]

On 5 February 2013 12:36, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip "sudo pip" common & bad]
>
> If pip used the user site packages by default (when running as anyone
> other than root), that dangerous UI flow wouldn't happen.
>
> Thoughts?

I think it's a great idea.

Perhaps also having pip warn about being run under sudo (a warning
that can be shut up simply) might not be a bad idea?


     Richard