mention having pip default to --user when itself installed in ~/.local

remove consideration of support for unnecessary installation options
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Richard Jones 2013-07-09 12:23:12 +10:00
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@ -109,22 +109,13 @@ The bootstrap process will proceed as follows:
Users may be running in an environment which cannot access the public
Internet and are relying solely on a local package repository. They
would use the "-i" (Base URL of Python Package Index) argument to the
"pip3 install" command. This use case will be handled by:
1. Recognising the command-line arguments that specify alternative or
additional locations to discover packages and attempting to
download the package from those locations.
2. If the package is not found there then we attempt to donwload it
using the standard "https://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/" index.
3. If that also fails, for any reason, we indicate to the user the
operation we were attempting, the reason for failure (if we know
it) and display further instructions for downloading and installing
the file manually.
"pip3 install" command. This simply overrides the default index URL pointing
to PyPI.
Some users may have no Internet access suitable for fetching the pip
implementation file. Manual installation of the pip implementation will be
supported through the manual download of the wheel file and "pip3 install
<downloaded wheel file>".
implementation file. These users can manually download and install the
setuptools and pip tar files. Adding specific support for this use-case is
unnecessary.
The download of the pip implementation install file will be performed
securely. The transport from pypi.python.org will be done over HTTPS with the
@ -148,6 +139,9 @@ implementation is installed:
These command-line options will also need to be implemented, but otherwise
ignored, in the pip implementation.
Consideration should be given to defaulting pip to install packages to the
user's packages directory if pip is installed in that location.
The "--no-install" option to the "pip3" command will not affect the
bootstrapping process.