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I have to say, these are kind of obscure corner cases. Should be fixed, to be sure, but I don't think they are an accurate representation of pip to people who are not familiar.

What do you expect me to use as an alternative? easy_install?

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You're right, maybe I've mis-categorized as them major caveats, but they're not so obscure because both myself and others have had to wrestle with these properties in production. I'm not saying use easy_install by any stretch (pip is great), they already have open tickets and I hope to see them fixed before being rolled into Python proper and do become defining problems within pip.

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