[Distutils] distil 0.1.1 released

[Donald Stufft]

On May 3, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> As far as Debian's dist-packages setup goes, that's their workaround for this misfeature of the current Python packaging ecosystem.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick.
> 
How do you determine "run globally"?

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