Re: Pip installs to unexpected place

On 2025-04-17, Left Right via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:

Also... when installing stuff with pip --user, it is always a package
that is not installed for the system (usually not even available for
the system). How can that "break system packages"?

>
pip installs dependencies. Dependencies may disagree on the version
with the system packages.

Good point. I don't generally allow pip to install dependencies, so I
forgot about that source of conflict. But as far as I can see, it
still can only break stuff for the user, not for the system. The
system is never going to look in my ~/.local/lib/python* directories.

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Grant