[Distutils] [final version?] PEP 513 - A Platform Tag for Portable Linux Built Distributions

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:10:34 -0800
Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> 
> I am 100% on board with telling people "don't use `sudo pip install´".  Frankly I have been telling the pip developers to just break this for years (see https://pip2014.com, which, much to my chagrin, still exists); `sudo pip install´ should just exit immediately with an error; to the extent that packagers need it, the only invocation that should work should be `sudo pip install --i-am-building-an-operating-system´.

This is frankly ridiculous. The problem is not the use of "sudo" or the
invocation under root, it's to install into a system Python. So the
solution should be to flag the system Python as not suitable for using
pip into, not to forbid using pip under root.

Regards

Antoine.