[mixmastamyk]

Not Debian specific. The braindead option was added by pip to scare off newbies.

No one with the most basic of sysad skills is “bricked” by having to uninstall a library. Again have not experienced a conflict in over 15 years.

Use the system package manager or buid yourself for tools like cmake.

[TeMPOraL]

Uninstalling a library - no. But I specifically mentioned trying to upgrade system Python, which is a quick way to break e.g. apt.

[mixmastamyk]

Ok, getting it now. I said upgrade python, and you thought I meant upgrade the system python in conflict with the distro. But that's not really what I meant. To clarify... I almost never touch the system python, but I upgrade the distro often. Almost every Ubuntu/Mint has a new system Python version these days.

So upgrade to new distro release, it has a new Python. Then pip install --user your user tools, twine, httpie, ruff, etc. Takes a few moments, perhaps once a year.

I do the same on Fedora, which I've been using more lately.