[22:13:09] <xafer> https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/3450 seems simple enough but I'm not sure how this could be tested, travis runs on ubuntu which wont have this distinction
[22:19:38] <lifeless> xafer: shouldn't we be copying everything that was installed?
[22:30:52] <dstufft> e.g. it just completely ignores data files, scripts, etc
[22:31:04] <dstufft> and I'm not sure how you'd even implement that in a way that wasn't just --prefix or --root
[22:32:01] <lifeless> why isn't it just prefix / root ?
[22:32:23] <lifeless> iow, whats the use case? can we delete it ?
[22:37:59] <dstufft> dunno the specific use case, we use it in pip itself to make it easier to do the vendoring (pip install -t pip/_vendor/ requests), I suspect it's something similar to that
[22:38:24] <dstufft> I haven't given it massive amounts of thought though
[22:38:30] <dstufft> but it seems like it's footgun-ish