On 26 September 2014 01:38, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > Either way I'm fairly commited to making --user the default, the only > question > on my mind is what exactly does that look like (e.g. does root get --user by > default?) and how we get from where we are now to that point. I think that > raising an error here is fairly unfriendly when we can know with pretty good > certainity what the user wanted (and they can explicitly declare that if > they want too).
A couple of points come to mind (although they may be more suitable for distutils-sig). 1. Do user installs "leak" into virtualenvs? If so, then in effect --use-system-packages is switched back on again if --user installs become the norm. Which is almost certainly not what is wanted. 2. pip install should default to not being --user when run from within a virtualenv (same logic as the isolated Python case, but much more important that behaviour remains as now, because the whole *point* of virtualenvs is to isolate). Note that both of these points apply both to venv and virtualenvs. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
