[Distutils] Including soabi tag in --user path?

[Nick Coghlan]

On 16 July 2017 at 04:39, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> It seems like the first of the options is a discussion for python-dev not
> for distutils-sig, since we don’t have any control over what Python itself
> does on this list. The second option seems like a non-starter to me, I don’t
> think we can reasonably expect every single package to publish a multi SOABI
> wheel file that includes every possible SOABI (particularly if other Pythons
> are reusing the same directory— which they shouldn’t be IMO).
>
> Better tooling for multi-SOABI seems like a good thing in general though.

A comment on the pip "default to --user" issue reminded me that
PYTHONUSERBASE does exist as an environment variable:
https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONUSERBASE

I'd genuinely forgotten about that, but it seems to me that there
could be some interesting potential use cases for that in combination
with suitably populated virtual environments.

Cheers,
Nick.

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