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The Debian dist-packages/site-packages mechanism alleviates a lot of the problems with dependency hell and clobbering from packages needing to be installed. It's a shame it hasn't been embraced by mainline Python. A case of perfect being the enemy of good. Instead we get the chaos of pyproject as the next great thing.

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Another lucky winner: https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/

This PEP is meant to ensure you don't clobber your Linux distro's base environment and break key OS applications.

Also, this problem doesn't exist on e.g. Windows, where there is no OS installed python to clobber. Other folks have taught themselves to always use virtual environments for this very reason and therefore don't share your problem.

Hence, there are tutorials out there that don't talk about your problem and tools exist where the default behavior might be dangerous on your Linux distro.

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