-u flag is short for --user ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42988977/what-is-the-purpose-of-pip-install-user https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42988977/

-u flag is short for --user ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42988977/what-is-the-purpose-of-pip-install-user https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42988977/what-is-the-pur... ) how about when you are authoring script under your name, but then want to schedule it for cron to run periodically? I often find myself working under my user on remote server, but then I want to schedule cron job - and run into all sorts of permissions / bugs and missing packages. especially when multiple machines need to run this script, and I don't want to involve containers to run 20-lines simple python script. this is why Golang is so popular - you can just scp a single binary across machines and it will just work.