[pfranz]

I generally avoid pip, but have to use it once in awhile. I don't like that pip installs globally by default. I've messed up too many OSes because of a library I only needed for 5minutes. I always use --user, but I don't think that obliquitous (I don't tend to use venv, either).

I was trying to upgrade a package. I first looked for a "pip upgrade/update <package>"--doesn't exist. I then tried "pip install <package>" to see if it would offer to upgrade--it didn't. I think found "pip install --upgrade <package>".

I'm sure I'd learn these things if I did them all the time, but it's some slightly poor defaults (so slightly bad and impactful I can't imagine them being changed), and some discoverability and friction I don't see in package managers I use way less often.