[Python-modules-team] Bug#830892: python-pip defaults to --user, breaks upstream --target option

[Daniel Holth]

Package: python-pip
Version: 8.1.2

Debian's python-pip has caused an entire category of upstream bugs in pip:
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22--target+option%22
The problem is that Debian patched pip to make the --user option the
default. This breaks the --target option.
Now if a script wants to use the --target option, it has to first check
whether it is on Debian, then pass the Debian specific --system option, or
if it is not on Debian, omit the --system option (because --system does not
exist in upstream pip).
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