Open webknjaz opened 4 years ago
bluedot needs to be installed via sudo otherwise the entry point for the python bluedot app bluedotapp
cant be installed.
It may need to be installed with sudo
in some specific case but in general, it's bad to advise using sudo
in docs.
Default install puts an entrypoint under bin/
dir of the current virtualenv.
--user
install puts an entry point under ~/.local/bin/
. You may need to add it to $PATH
but it works.
If you do non-user install outside of a virtualenv, it attempts to use the system site-packages location which means affecting root-controlled locations. Of course, if you use sudo
, it'll disregard the natural access protection but that's not a fix but a workaround. It'll also mangle any packages which are controlled by the OS package manager which is very bad and may lead to a broken system.
P.S. Besides entry points, there's also python -m
invocation style which also knows how to source --user
-installed dists.
If you do want to have sudo
in docs, that's fine but don't put it in the default snippet which would harm newbies. Put it as an extra note and maybe link to virtualenv and pip docs by PyPA mentioning sudo
as a last resort and explicitly warning about destructive side-effects.
Please don't lecture me on what I need to do.
I understand the implications and will consider your comments.
It's important that install remains as simple as possible and single point instructions provide that. If this, take this action, otherwise, do this, only adds to confusion.
It's not a good idea to encourage users to use sudo with Pip as it'll mess with their OS-managed site-packages content.