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

[Donald Stufft]

On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> 1. Packages should only be installed from the given package indexes.
> No scraping of websites as at least easy_install/buildout does, no
> downloading from external download links. A deprecation period for
> this of a couple of months, to give package authors the chance to
> upload their packages is probably necessary.

PyPI will need to change for this to happen realistically if I recall. There is a  
hard limit on how large of a distribution can be uploaded to PyPI and there
are, if I recall, valid distributions which are larger than that.

Personally I want the installers to only install from PyPI so my suggestion
if this is something that (the proverbial) we want to do, PyPI should gain
some notion of a soft limit for distribution upload (to prevent against
DoS) with the ability to increase that size limit for specific projects who
can file a ticket w/ PyPI to have their limit increased.
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