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Homebrew also started preventing you from installing any packages system-wide with pip

• woodruffw 11mo ago
  This is true, but also misleading: Homebrew did what every major "distro-level" package manager did, which was conform to PEP 668[1]. (This, as it turns out, was a great idea. A single global shared environment that pip used by default was one of the single greatest sources of user frustration in Python.) [1]: https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/ https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/
• kstrauser 11mo ago
  No, pip itself did that, and fortunately. It’s a setting you can disable if you want to be able to accidentally trash your environment.
  • saagarjha 11mo ago
    I want to purposefully trash my environment
    • kstrauser 11mo ago
      Pip will let you! You just have to ask it nicely.