> The Python environment directories shouldn't be writable anyway.
Yeah, except people start putting together their own Python environments in their home directories because that's what third-party packages suggest and asking admins to install random packages globally for random one-off tasks is not really sustainable. I'm sure there are workarounds, but it would be nice if virtualenv had some automatic way of figuring this out.
Ah sorry! I see what you mean now. I guess it wouldn't be so hard to write a script to deduplicate a bunch of virtualenv environments, but I'm scared to be the one to go down that rabbit hole.
Yeah, except people start putting together their own Python environments in their home directories because that's what third-party packages suggest and asking admins to install random packages globally for random one-off tasks is not really sustainable. I'm sure there are workarounds, but it would be nice if virtualenv had some automatic way of figuring this out.