[Python-ideas] Things I wish Pip learned from Npm

[Barry Warsaw]

On May 08, 2014, at 11:16 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:

>Some distros (Fedora I believe) are making Python depend on pip so the
>outcome is exactly the same.

Debian and Ubuntu won't be providing pip automatically outside of a
virtualenv, but we'll provide some hints as to how to install it using the
OS package manager.

I'm close to a solution for
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732703 which will fix pyvenv
and pip inside a pyvenv.  It's not at all as straightforward as you might
think, but I have A Plan.

I still think pip-outside-venv should install to --user by default so I'm glad
pip upstream is moving in that direction.  There's a use case, although IMO
fairly limited, for global installation via `sudo pip` so we'll support that,
but you'll have to use the python*-pip distro package for that to work.

Cheers,
-Barry
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