Re: Warning before sudo pip'ing?

[Justin W. Flory]

I'm not a member of the SIG, but as someone who did this in the past
before learning proper practices, I would find this *extremely* helpful,
especially when running certain software that explicitly tells the user
to run this, even with it being bad practice.

A big +1 from me…

On 02/10/2017 07:31 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
>  Having been badly burned by sudo pip install in the past, I agree
> that a
>  warning is appropriate, with a suggestion to use pip install --user
>  
>  On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 1:28 PM Tomas Orsava <torsava(a)redhat.com
>  <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>  
>      Hi!
>      On the last FESCo meeting while discussing the sudo pip Fedora [Change],
>      maxamillion proposed that it might be useful to issue a warning when a
>      user tries to run pip with root privileges--as in most cases it's not
>      what they should be doing (`pip install --user` is usually more
>      appropriate).
>  
>      What do you think?
>  
>      [Change] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Making_sudo_pip_safe
>  
>      Regards,
>      Tomas Orsava
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Justin W. Flory
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