[unmole]

Somehow in the 15 years of working with Python on Linux, I've never broken anything using pip.

[sigjuice]

Likely due to your good taste and judgement of never ever running pip with sudo.

[integricho]

I'd argue that running pip or any package installation with sudo is the devs fault.

[salawat]

Never tried to update something eh?

Debian is particularly bad because they'd comingle python 2 and 3 packages in the same filesystem locations if you used pip out of the box.

That was a horrid discovery on my part. I assumed, coming from java where this sort of thing has been a long solved problem, that no one would be daft enough to do something like that.