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I wrote about why this was a bad idea at: http://notes.pault.ag/debian-python/

If you want a clear failure mode - if this installs requests globally, think about the chaos if you're on Debian stable, with 0.12.1, before the API break - after a pip install, you may end up with all the software on your system broken.

When this happens, please don't file bugs with Debian. Thanks.

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> When this happens, please don't file bugs with Debian. Thanks.

We are all adults here. I believe the implications of using pip instead of apt on Debian are pretty clear for anyone using it. This is not an universal problem though.

No. It's not. If you saw the people filing the bugs, you wouldn't say this.

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