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On Sep 25, 2014, at 4:54 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:

On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 07:34:31 +0100
Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:

On 25 September 2014 02:08, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:

Indeed. Moving towards having --user as the norm is definitely
something we want to look at for pip. One of the biggest concerns is
how well-exercised the whole user site directory area is in practice.

What do you mean by well-exercised?

Basically, although --user is available in pip (and the underlying
facilities in Python have been around for some time), it's difficult
to gauge how many people are using them, and as a result what level of
testing has happened in real-life situations.

I'm using it often. I'm also unsure how broken it could be. The user
site-packages is just another site-packages directory.