On August 8, 2015 10:13:04 AM Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Steve M. Robbins, 2015-08-08] > > > I went looking for the most recent sources and found out that you > > > > can easily get pyvtk via pip. > > `sudo pip install ...` is the same as `rm -rf /` to me. I see. > Please don't suggest it! In my defense: I did not say you need to use "sudo". All you need (at least for pyvtk) is privilege to write into /usr/local, so it is more like "rm -rf /usr/local" ... still damaging but not as dramatic. :-) > If you don't want to maintain it, report RFA or O > bug or simply remove it from the archive, but never ever suggest users > to use pip for installing system libs/apps. I had to clean after these > tools way too many times! pip is great when used inside virtualenv or > tools like this, but should return "please use rpm/dpkg" whenever > invoked as root, period! Thanks. I had read Paul Tagliamonte's essay [1] and wondered whether I'd get this kind of response. :-) I won't wade into the debate. [1] http://notes.pault.ag/debian-python/ Best, -Steve
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