{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/pip/issues/3833","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/pip","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/pip/issues/3833/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/pip/issues/3833/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/pip/issues/3833/events","html_url":"https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3833","id":164584048,"number":3833,"title":"pip should have a standard option to disable --user or --target should simply ignore it","user":{"login":"dholth","id":208018,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/208018?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/dholth","html_url":"https://github.com/dholth","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dholth/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dholth/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dholth/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dholth/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dholth/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dholth/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dholth/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dholth/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dholth/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/pip/labels/--target%20option","name":"--target option","color":"fad8c7"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2016-07-08T18:01:23Z","updated_at":"2016-07-08T18:01:23Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Debian's fork of pip added a --system option which is the opposite of --user, but this option does not exist in standard pip, but if a script wants to use --target then --user has to be disabled. However --system crashes genuine versions of pip. It would be useful to have a way to use --target that works on all versions of pip.\r\n\r\n(Why should --target care about --user at all, when --user was not passed explicitly?)\r\n\r\n@warsaw"}}
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