title: python anaconda vs system best path policy
body: <p>I have succesfully installed Anaconda3, version 5.0.1 on my Debian sid desktop. I have a concern, though. The default installation prepends tho the PATH environment variable, in the user's .bashrc file, the directory anaconda3/bin. Thus, for this user, the python version active in any terminal turns out to be Anaconda's python 3.6.4, not the current Debian system default's python 2.7.14.</p>
  
  <p>Should I be concerned, as a normal user, not as root, that this might give some trouble when dealing with some issue/activity outside any anaconda environment?? What are the pro's and con's of having anaconda's path appended or prepended to the PATH variable?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>