Post #853499
2026-03-27 20:02 UTC
I FUCKING HATE PIP!!!! FUCK PIP!!!!!! FUCK PYTHON!!!!! I HATE THIS FUCKING THING
WHY DOES IT WRITE HUGE BLOBS INTO /TMP
WHICH IDIOT DESIGNED THIS
WHY DOES IT IGNORE XDG_CACHE_HOME AND --CACHE-DIR
WHAT THE FUCK!!!
Replies (3)
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@mochabeau@infosec.exchange 2026-03-27 21:05
@blumlaut ??? very weird, ive never had it write much outside of the venv
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@spork@furry.engineer 2026-03-27 20:09
@blumlaut I recommend you use UV, it conforms to the XDG spec.
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@blumlaut@hounds.online 2026-03-27 20:05
which of the 9999 knobs do i have to turn for pip to do literally anything as any normal human would design things (such as not writing huge binaries into /tmp, a directory that every modern linux distro makes a tmpfs)