Re: Python 3.4 and ensurepip (rehashed, long)
[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)
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