Re: Guix's python has pip's user dir in its loadpath

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Wojtek,

Wojtek Kosior <koszko@koszko.org> writes:

>> > But we'll be rebuilding the Python world anyway, so now is a chance to
>> > try out some changes like that, though maybe it is a bit much with
>> > what we are trying already. See <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63139>  
>> 
>> It's a simple change, I guess we could try it at the same time, if
>> someone volunteers to do it!
>
> I just saw this message and hurried myself up to test the patch to
> python-build-system that I made. Unfortunately, it turns out the
> "PYTHONNOUSERSITE=1" env var breaks pip which tries to install wheels to
> the system site directory and fails due to a read-only filesystem.

I'm not sure I follow; why would PYTHONNOUSERSITE affect pip?  I thought
it should only appear in wrappers of Python executables, not be set in a
profile's environment (thus not affecting pip) ?

Could you share the diff of the patch you tried so far?

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Thanks,
Maxim