I agree that this is a bothersome trend, but the use of pip to install system level packages is one of those user experience-degrading custom installation mecha

I agree that this is a bothersome trend, but the use of pip to install system level packages is one of those user experience-degrading custom installation mechanisms. From that perspective, I don't have a problem with this refusal, I actually think it's a good thing, for the reason mentioned in the first comment: > In the long term we want the fact that the AWS CLI is written in Python to be more of an implementation detail than a feature. For Arch, there is a PKGBUILD for the AWS CLI v2 on AUR [1], which produces a package that can be installed, like any other, with the system package manager. There seem to be some problems with packaging it for Fedora, but those issues look orthogonal to the decision not to publish on PyPI [2]. 1: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aws-cli-v2-bin/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aws-cli-v2-bin/ 2: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964128 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964128