[Distutils] [final version?] PEP 513 - A Platform Tag for Portable Linux Built Distributions

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 16, 2016, at 06:01 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:

>I know we had such an issue where pip accidentally modified system installed
>files, maybe Barry still remembers the details ...

I don't, but I hope that should not be a problem these days, with modern pip
on modern Debian/Ubuntu systems.  We prevent pip from installing in system
locations in various ways, including making --user the default.

I don't think we're doing anything that isn't at least within the pip
roadmap.  E.g. --user will probably someday be the default in stock pip, but
because of reasons it hasn't happened yet.

IIRC, Donald was also talking about better ways to detect system owned files,
so pip would also refuse to overwrite them.

Cheers,
-Barry
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