[PATCH 3 of 3] docs/installation: clarify root privileges requirement for 'pip install'

Andrew Shadura andrew at shadura.me
Tue Mar 17 11:47:45 EDT 2015


Hi,

On 16 March 2015 at 19:35, Thomas De Schampheleire
<patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>It is very easy to do that. Just drop ~/.local, switch to another user
>>or anything like that.

> Switching to another user can hardly be called a graceful removal.
> Deleting the directory just like that isn't possible if the user has installed other
> packages than kallithea with this method as he may want to keep these other
> packages...

Depends on your requirements. In my case, I have a separate user for
Kallithea anyway, so it's much easier to recreate ~/.local than to
play with virtualenv. As a benefit, it doesn't need any enabling or
activation, it's always active.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew


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