Poetry fails to run pip which picks `user` option from user config

[sergei-dyshel]

• I am on the latest Poetry version.

• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.

• If an exception occurs when executing a command, I executed it again in debug mode (-vvv option).

• OS version and name: MacOS Big Sur 11.6

• Poetry version: 1.2.0 (installed with Homebrew)

• Link of a Gist with the contents of your pyproject.toml file: https://github.com/sergei-dyshel/itunes-tag-sync/blob/master/pyproject.toml

Issue

I have pip configured to install to user directory:

# pip.conf
[global]
user = yes

When I install project with poetry I get the following error:

# poetry install
  Command ['/Users/sergei/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/itunes-tag-sync-_c69w8Vl-py3.10/bin/python', '/usr/local/Cellar/poetry/1.2.0_1/libexec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/virtualenv/seed/wheels/embed/pip-22.2.2-py3-none-any.whl/pip', 'install', '--disable-pip-version-check', '--prefix', '/Users/sergei/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/itunes-tag-sync-_c69w8Vl-py3.10', '--no-deps', '/Users/sergei/Library/Caches/pypoetry/artifacts/e1/09/c0/6a6df3ef412eb19fcda1b353ea54e3b48f9c518348fadd0967a962cbb6/pyparsing-3.0.9-py3-none-any.whl'] errored with the following return code 1, and output:
  ERROR: Can not combine '--user' and '--prefix' as they imply different installation locations

So it looks like Poetry is picking user option from the config and it conflicts with the option passed on command line.

Expected behaviour

Poetry ignores user config or at least potentially conflicting parts of it (e.g. user option).

Workaround

Use env variable to override user during Poetry run.

PIP_USER=0 poetry install

[dimbleby]

duplicate #1214

[sergei-dyshel]

@dimbleby
I think you misunderstood the issue here and there's not duplicate here.

#1214 is talking about making Poetry into a global (or rather user-specific) package manager that installs packages to user directory.

This issue is talking about a BUG that poetry fails to install because of conflicting user configuration. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[neersighted]

Not really -- ultimately the request is to interoperate with pip --user or similar. Pip is an implementation detail of Poetry and anything you do to try and perturb Poetry's usage of pip may cause breakage (arguable we should be using pip --isolated) -- but a request for Poetry to respect pip's user mode is a duplicate of #1214.

[dimbleby]

fwiw I agree after all that this is not quite the same as #1214.

This one is sort of saying that there was a loophole all along that the #1214-wanters could have used, and asking for that loophole to be closed.

If poetry ever reaches the point where it doesn't shell out to pip at all then this all becomes moot.

Meanwhile, as you say, it probably ought to go --isolated when it does call pip, and it seems legit to have an issue tracking that.

[neersighted]

Ah, after re-reading the original issue I see the distinction now -- this is a user's configuration of a different/external tool breaking Poetry.