Re: python-pip is broken after updates

[Efraim Flashner]

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 01:34:18AM +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
> > I am using free vpn by protonvpn on GuixOS.  protonvpn installs own client 
> > written on python3 requiring pip3.  It works fine after installation under 
> > root.
> >
> > Could you … make some advices?
> 
> Guix aside, I definitely could advise you to stop using obscure ad-hoc 
> software, that has to be run with superuser rights, when itʼs not necessary.  
> And in your case itʼs not.

This is certainly not useful advice. It's not up to you to determine
which software is appropriate and acceptable for another user to run.

To the original question, when installing python software using
upstream's methods, it will embed a reference to the path of pip/python
used. Using Guix, unless you register that version as a GC root, it will
eventually be garbage collected and you'll have to re-install.

On a different note however, yesterday a new package was added to guix,
protonvpn-cli, which I'm guessing is the python program you're using. I
suggest updating your Guix installation and trying it out to see if it
works as expected.


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