Bug 994307 - pip should install to a separate space than standard packages
Summary: pip should install to a separate space than standard packages
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 662034
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: python-pip
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Tim Flink
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-08-07 02:56 UTC by Pádraig Brady
Modified: 2016-01-04 14:45 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-08-07 15:30:01 UTC
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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 ***
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