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<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
<para>In serveral places we use the <command>pip3</command> command to
- install Python 3 programs and modules for all users as root. This conflicts
- with the Python developers recommendation to build packages in a virtual
- environment as a regular user. To this end, a multi-line warning is
- written when using <command>pip3</command> as the root user. If desired,
- supress this warning by running the following command:</para>
+ install Python 3 programs and modules for all users as
+ <systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem>. This conflicts
+ with the Python developers recommendation to install packages into a
+ virtual environment or the home directory of a regular user (by running
+ <command>pip3</command> as this user). To this end, a multi-line warning
+ is written when using <command>pip3</command> as the
+ <systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem> user. The main reason
+ of this recommendation is for avoiding a conflict with the system
+ package manager (<command>dpkg</command> for example), but LFS does not
+ have a system-wide package manager so this is not a problem. If desired,
+ suppress this warning by running the following command:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">sed -e '/def warn_if_run_as_root/a\ return' \
-i /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/req_command.py