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Vaguely related, this wonderful article by Paul Tagliamonte on how pip coexists with distro package managers (in this case APT): http://notes.pault.ag/debian-python/

Nice reminder that pip is a dev tool and should be used as such. It makes sense to be included in Python.

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I think that everywhere someone's instructed to use pip, it really should be to set up a virtualenv and then use pip inside that.

pip should not be going anywhere near your site-packages, and it'd be great to be able to disable that ability.

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