[17:22:50] <Guest37977> hello. I have a question about pip
[17:23:35] <Guest37977> just wondering if anyone is around to help
[22:55:31] <mcm_> as a newbie on python, is it normal that pip tries to install packages to /usr/local/lib instead of ~/.local/lib ?
[22:55:52] <mcm_> are all pip installations default to a system wide installation?
[22:56:35] <Alex_Gaynor> mcm_: that's teh default, yes, if you use --user it will use the ~/.local location, and if you're in a virtualenv it will use that
[22:58:29] <mcm_> Alex_Gaynor: thank you very much!
[22:59:26] <dstufft> mcm_: there's an open ticket to default to --user outside of a virtualenv if we don't have permission to write to the global location