Re: Python 3.4 and ensurepip (rehashed, long)
[Donald Stufft, 2014-03-26]
> On Mar 26, 2014, at 9:12 AM, Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> wrote:
> > [Barry Warsaw, 2014-03-25]
> >> One of the things I'd like to see, in addition to supporting
> >> platform-specified system-level installation directories
> >> (i.e. /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/dist-packages on Debian), is an upstream switch
> >> to tell Python to ignore this directory, mirroring e.g. -s. That way, if
> >> people say "Well I just pip installed foo into /usr/local and it broke my
> >> system" we'd be able to respond "you better use pythonX.Y --dont-blame-us".
> >
> > I like the idea (where --dont-blame-us simply disables support for
> > .egg/.zip/.whl in the interpreter, assuming pip/easy_install installs
> > zips instead of unpacking them)
>
> Pip does not install as an .egg or a .whl. It doesn’t use .egg at all and regardless
> of which format it downloads it unpacks it and installs it. There is no difference in
> format between what pip installs and any debian package I’ve ever looked at.
then --dont-blame-us has to mean removing /usr/local from sys.path
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