I should clarify that I'm not saying remove the ability to install packages into a venv or even straight into the system.

However this article is about making pip to better interact with the system package manager on Linux. To me this seems like a bandaid solution instead of generating a rpm/deb file and installing this. You essentially get protection against overwriting other package files, but also protection against the package manager overwriting pip installed files for free. Instead we put a hack in place to add another db (a file) to check for both the system package manager and pip.

Clearly I'm missing something but why is nobody proposing this solution at least for this context?