[pdubroy]

On my personal machines (effectively single-user), I find there's no need to install packages globally. I have a default virtual environment that I activate in my .profile, and anything that's not project-specific gets installed there.

Not saying everyone should do this, but it works well for me.

[myusuf3]

thats such a hassle. though, why dont you just install global requirements in the base machine, you wont always have to keep turning on virtualenvs.