Was being a facetious, sure someone asked for it, but it was pretty dumb. This has never "corrupted" anything, is rare (not happened to me in last 15 years), and simply fixed when knowledgeable.
Not everyone can simply fix it, so a better solution would be to isolate the system python, allow more than one installed, etc.
Distros already do this to some extent.
- https://github.com/pypa/packaging/issues/774
- https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/3548
- https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7953
I relied on those for a decade, maybe two.
> something no one asked for
Was being a facetious, sure someone asked for it, but it was pretty dumb. This has never "corrupted" anything, is rare (not happened to me in last 15 years), and simply fixed when knowledgeable.
Not everyone can simply fix it, so a better solution would be to isolate the system python, allow more than one installed, etc. Distros already do this to some extent.