Warning before sudo pip'ing?

[Tomas Orsava]

Hi!
On the last FESCo meeting while discussing the sudo pip Fedora [Change], 
maxamillion proposed that it might be useful to issue a warning when a 
user tries to run pip with root privileges--as in most cases it's not 
what they should be doing (`pip install --user` is usually more 
appropriate).

What do you think?

[Change] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Making_sudo_pip_safe

Regards,
Tomas Orsava

[Tomas Orsava]

I should add that thanks to the aforementioned Fedora [Change] using 
`sudo pip` should not be dangerous as it could have been before, so the 
warning would be just for good measure.

[Change] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Making_sudo_pip_safe

Tomas

On 02/10/2017 06:35 PM, Tomas Orsava wrote:
> Hi!
> On the last FESCo meeting while discussing the sudo pip Fedora 
> [Change], maxamillion proposed that it might be useful to issue a 
> warning when a user tries to run pip with root privileges--as in most 
> cases it's not what they should be doing (`pip install --user` is 
> usually more appropriate).
>
> What do you think?
>
> [Change] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Making_sudo_pip_safe
>
> Regards,
> Tomas Orsava
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[Neal Becker]

Having been badly burned by sudo pip install in the past, I agree that a
warning is appropriate, with a suggestion to use pip install --user

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 1:28 PM Tomas Orsava  wrote:
> Hi!
> On the last FESCo meeting while discussing the sudo pip Fedora [Change],
> maxamillion proposed that it might be useful to issue a warning when a
> user tries to run pip with root privileges--as in most cases it's not
> what they should be doing (`pip install --user` is usually more
> appropriate).
>
> What do you think?
>
> [Change] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Making_sudo_pip_safe
>
> Regards,
> Tomas Orsava
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[Justin W. Flory]

I'm not a member of the SIG, but as someone who did this in the past
before learning proper practices, I would find this *extremely* helpful,
especially when running certain software that explicitly tells the user
to run this, even with it being bad practice.

A big +1 from me…

On 02/10/2017 07:31 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
> Having been badly burned by sudo pip install in the past, I agree that a
> warning is appropriate, with a suggestion to use pip install --user
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 1:28 PM Tomas Orsava <[e-mail]
> > wrote:
> Hi!
> On the last FESCo meeting while discussing the sudo pip Fedora [Change],
> maxamillion proposed that it might be useful to issue a warning when a
> user tries to run pip with root privileges--as in most cases it's not
> what they should be doing (`pip install --user` is usually more
> appropriate).
>
> What do you think?
>
> [Change] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Making_sudo_pip_safe
>
> Regards,
> Tomas Orsava
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[Nick Coghlan]

On 10 February 2017 at 18:35, Tomas Orsava  wrote:
> Hi!
> On the last FESCo meeting while discussing the sudo pip Fedora [Change],
> maxamillion proposed that it might be useful to issue a warning when a user
> tries to run pip with root privileges--as in most cases it's not what they
> should be doing (`pip install --user` is usually more appropriate).
>
> What do you think?

I guess when you're building an RPM you're not typically running as
root either, so standard RPM builds would still be fine. So +1 from
me.

Cheers,
Nick.

[Tomas Orsava]

Hi!
The warning when sudo pip installing is deployed in rawhide!

Package version: python-pip-9.0.1-6.fc26.

Cheers,
Tomas

On 02/10/2017 06:35 PM, Tomas Orsava wrote:
> Hi!
> On the last FESCo meeting while discussing the sudo pip Fedora 
> [Change], maxamillion proposed that it might be useful to issue a 
> warning when a user tries to run pip with root privileges--as in most 
> cases it's not what they should be doing (`pip install --user` is 
> usually more appropriate).
>
> What do you think?
>
> [Change] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Making_sudo_pip_safe
>
> Regards,
> Tomas Orsava
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