On Tue, 2017-02-07 at 13:08 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > Dne 7.2.2017 v 11:32 Michal Cyprian napsal(a): > > Ruby on Fedora uses /usr/local/share/gems/ for packages installed > > as a root via gem tool for many years. > > Since you refer to Ruby, I just want to highlight that > /usr/local/share/gems/ is for packages installed by *root* via gem > too (as you correctly said) [1]. We assume that root manages the > entire system and wants installed packages to be available system > wide. I don't expect this is widely used practice. Typical user > installed packages goes into $HOME/.gem. Is there any location > similar to this? Yes, under ~/.local/lib/ It's what you get with `pip install --user $module`. > As far as I know, our users very appreciate the possibility to do > "gem install" without administrator privileges. So do Python developers. It's very commonly used. But even more common is to use virtual environments, one per application. --- I strongly feel this feature is a move in the wrong direction. I've never met a Python developer (and I'm one myself) installing modules system-wide with Pip. It seems to me the only people doing that are people who follow bad documentations. IMHO a much better (and simpler) way to fix the (very real) issue of unsuspecting users damaging their systems would be for pip to refuse to run with root permissions. -- Mathieu _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
