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From: Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Pip installs to unexpected place
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 13:24:28 +1200
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On 18/04/25 9:41 am, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> There's just not a really great answer to this.

Seems to me a system-installed application shouldn't be looking in the 
user's .local packages in the first place. That should only be for 
things the user has installed "for this user".

-- 
Greg