You're right, maybe I've mis-categorized as them major caveats, but they're not so obscure because both myself and others have had to wrestle with these propert

You're right, maybe I've mis-categorized as them major caveats, but they're not so obscure because both myself and others have had to wrestle with these properties in production. I'm not saying use easy_install by any stretch (pip is great), they already have open tickets and I hope to see them fixed before being rolled into Python proper and do become defining problems within pip.