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, w

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/