Python developers agree. See PEP 668 – Marking Python base environments as “externally managed” – https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/
[global]
break-system-packages = true
It becomes increasingly impossible to track down home directory pollution and config files in Python. Next step will be a Python registry on Linux. How about:
regedit VENV=/home/sjw/venv42 KEYWORD=single-version-externally-managed DWORD=0xbadbeehttps://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/extern...
IMO the idea that a 'Linux admin' is better informed than a 'Linux user' is increasingly anachronistic. In most cases the admin is just the user running sudo. I'd suggest that such functionality should be enabled by installing some kind of OS package rather than being the default