@p @feld @NEETzsche @r000t @lanodan >Anyway, my package manager is written in C
I mean, it also is about not messing with the files provided by the packages installed by the package manager. Letting both it and pip dangle in the same namespace would eventually result in the same mess as when you install a bunch of software with ./configure && make && make install.
>It's a good idea to keep a statically linked busybox everywhere you can.
Had this shit happen when updating old Gentoo install a while ago. Python (and thus emerge) weren't broken but coreutils and tar were due to some glibc conflict. Had to remove a bunch of binaries in /bin and replace them with symlinks to busybox which surprisingly worked and let me fix essential packages.