[Python-Dev] Use ptyhon -s as default shbang for system python executables/daemons

[Donald Stufft]

> On Mar 21, 2015, at 7:52 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 19 March 2015 at 07:51, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> I’ve long wished that the OS had it’s own virtual environment. A lot of problems
>> seems to come from trying to cram the things the OS wants with the things that
>> the user wants into the same namespace.
> 
> I'm more wanting to go in the other direction and suggest to folks
> that if they're not *scripting the OS*, then the system Python isn't
> what they want, and they should be using at least a virtual
> environment, preferably an entirely separate software collection that
> they can upgrade on their own timeline, independently of what they
> system does.
> 

It’s likely easier to get the OS to move it’s own things to a virtual
environment than it is to convince every single person who uses an OS
to never install globally.

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