[Python-modules-team] Bug#771794: pip silently removes/updates system provided python packages

[Barry Warsaw]

On Dec 02, 2014, at 10:38 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:

>Speaking only for myself, I think that sounds reasonable.
>
>It's well established I believe in Debian Python usage that if a user
>installs packages in /usr/local and break their system, they are on their
>own, so I'm not particularly worried about the edge cases for having the same
>python package installed in /usr/lib and /usr/local, it's on whoever
>installed stuff in /usr/local.

Work's been busy for me lately, but I'll just chime in with a +1