Bug 994307

Summary:	pip should install to a separate space than standard packages
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pádraig Brady <pbrady>
Component:	python-pip	Assignee:	Tim Flink <tflink>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Pádraig Brady 2013-08-07 02:56:03 UTC

pip is a separate system to rpm, and it's strange and problematic to have pip install python projects to the standard package space.

debian for example does it correctly IMHO by installing to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ rather than /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/

Perhaps python would need to be modified also to add /usr/local/...
to the sys.path _before_ /usr/...

Please see here for some issues in having these conflicting areas:
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-August/013039.html

Comment 1 Pádraig Brady 2013-08-07 11:47:26 UTC

Some more example awkwardness due to this issue:
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/39862/

Comment 2 Alan Pevec 2013-08-07 13:45:38 UTC

Duplicate of bug 662034 ?

Comment 3 Pádraig Brady 2013-08-07 15:30:01 UTC

Yep good spot.
This aspect is best summarised in bug 662034#c8

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 662034 ***