[Python-modules-team] Bug#725848: python-pip: default install method for non-root users should be --user

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Mon Nov 17 21:47:54 UTC 2014


Please don’t change the default. There is no way in pip to turn that flag *off*
again once it's turned on and any flag added by Debian will be Debian specific
and confuse people. We (pip) plan to make this change on our own at which point
it will then be able to be done in a consistent way.

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