I agree with this change. The title is misleading. What you can’t do is use pip to install to your systems Python env, but using a venv you can use pip as usual. I’ve always found to use pip install to your system env a bad practice that may be difficult to repair should it get broken.

Agreed. I kinda wish that it did something like NPM, which is you have to specify "-g" for anything system/global level

I've started doing export PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV=true on the machines

Woah nice. Wasn’t aware of that option! 🤩

🤯 🤯 🤯

You are welcome 😁

I can't expect my engs to have that set though. And there's so much

pip install myawesomepackage

in the wild 🤦‍♂️

Yes. It's the best effort thing, isn't it. If you can control the machine scaffolding process, you could get this into the bashrc or something.

I am so glad that distros are finally going out of their way to make it hard to use system Python