Only remove .pydistutils.cfg option, not command line

orn688 · Nov 7, 2016 · b0bdee4 · b0bdee4
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@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ Similarly, Pip can be used to upgrade itself via:
 
 The normal `pip install --user` is disabled for brewed Python. This is because of a bug in distutils, because Homebrew writes a `distutils.cfg` which sets the package `prefix`.
 
+A possible workaround (which puts executable scripts in `~/Library/Python/<X>.<Y>/bin`) is:
+
+    pip install --user --install-option="--prefix=" <package-name>
+
 ## `site-packages` and the `PYTHONPATH`
 
 The `site-packages` is a directory that contains Python modules (especially bindings installed by other formulae). Homebrew creates it here: