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

[Yuval Greenfield]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:11 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>  > Looks like a slippery road if you try to make pip guess
> > what the right installation dir should be, e.g. by trying
> > to detect that it's running in a virtualenv, the Python3
> > venv, pyrun or a user's local Python installation.
>
> Right. Refuse the temptation to guess.
>

The easy and default flow should be the safe one.

As Ned Batchelder noted
http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201302/war_is_peace.html we're better off
having "dangerous_pip_install" not be the easy or default flow. So I guess
we're only left with the route of a painful deprecation process.


Yuval
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