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by nicoco 1371 days ago
You're right, --user seems the default behaviour, I did not realize that. Maybe because it's different in Fedora that I also use? Or maybe I was just plain wrong :)

Anyway, I think this does not change the fact that it's a bad idea to populate your ~/.local/lib with python libs, since it may break some python programs installed via apt for your user, or was that wrong too?
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rcarmo 1371 days ago
Well, I use Fedora since March (after a lot of Ubuntu) and I don't need --user. I'm on 36.

As to filling your lib with stuff, it depends. AFAICR the default is to search for things there first, because it is assumed the user environment takes precedence.

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