serious conflicts between python pks installed via yum vs pip

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2012/2/10 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:
> I've seen this repeatedly, with often very serious consequences (complete
> failure of update from f15->f16 for example).
>
> Between packages installed via pip, and packages installed via yum, some
> packages seem to switch between
>
> e.g.,
> numpy-1.6.1-py2.7.egg-info
>
> being installed as a file and the same name being installed as a directory.
> This can cause subsequent rpm update (via cpio) to abort.
>
> I don't know what's causing this, but IMO this is a serious problem.
>
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Never use pip outside an isolated environment (use virtualenv)

H.