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On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:44:10 -0000 (UTC), Jon Ribbens
<jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> declaimed the following:


>
>Yes, I tried the solution suggested there (copy the 'activate' script
>from an existing Unix virtualenv) and unfortunately it didn't work
>(it looked like it worked but 'pip install' still installed things in
>the system packages directory not the virtualenv).

	The main thing that popped out at me from the link was the comment
about being specific to the host system... 

	I don't intend to try replicating your conditions (I've never even used
a virtual environment, much less some other shell), but based upon your
statement about the behavior of "pip" would be looking to see if there are
OS specific parts within it -- which perhaps wouldn't know/recognize a bash
style environment variable, etc.
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