pip won't ignore system-installed files

[Skip Montanaro]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> IIUC, it is perfectly legitimate to do install into --user to override system-
> wide installed modules.  Thus, I should be able to do:
>
> pip install --user --up blah
>
> even though there is already a package blah in
> /usr/lib/pythonxxx/site_packages/...
...
> Can we please fix this?

Sounds like a job for a bug report (for pip, most likely), not so much
a post to comp.lang.python.

What happens if you omit --upgrade?

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