Fix `pip list` behaviour
danielhollas opened this issue · comments
In #437, we've set the global environment variable PIP_USER=1, which means that pip install would by default install to user site in ~/.local (i.e. pip install would become pip install --user.
What I did not realize is that this would affect other pip commands that have --user option. One such command is pip list, which we use in aiidalab to list installed packages. Unfortunately, pip list --user will only list packages in ~/.local, and will thus miss all the packages installed in the conda environment.
To fix this, instead of using PIP_USER envvar, we can create a pip configuration file, and set a per-command section so that --user is set only for pip install. https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/topics/configuration/#per-command-section
I've noticed this when playing with the QeApp image, where I would see this on the app page:
