On 2024/05/21 10:05, Roger Marsh wrote: > Surely the --user argument should remove the need for the > --break-system-packages argument?
That was a deliberate choice on the part of Python, see https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/ : The python3 executable available to the users of the distro and the : python3 executable available as a dependency for other software in the : distro are typically the same binary. This means that if an end user : installs a Python package using a tool like pip outside the context of a : virtual environment, that package is visible to Python-language software : shipped by the distro. If the newly-installed package (or one of its : dependencies) is a newer, backwards-incompatible version of a package : that was installed through the distro, it may break software shipped by : the distro. ... : This applies both to system-wide installs (sudo pip install) as well : as user home directory installs (pip install --user), since packages in : either location show up on the sys.path of /usr/bin/python3.
