mitsuhiko/pipsi

use /usr/local when running as root

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#69 opened on Feb 18, 2016

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Starting here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel/25267/focus=25436

there was some discussion of the fact that sudo pip install is a bit of an antipattern.

I raised pipsi as a possible replacement.

One issue though is that pipsi defaults to ~ even when running as root.

Do you think it would be reasonable to make pipsi, when run as root, do the equivalent of pipsi --home=/usr/local/pipsi/environments --bin-dir=/usr/local/bin ?

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Research direction
Investigate how pipsi determines the installation prefix and modify it to use /usr/local when running as root.
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli
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Feature
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2
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1-3 hours
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Clear
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Pythonpip
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60