Install globally with --user

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Feature Request

I am using Poetry to install project dependencies into a Docker container where I do not have root access. Since using a virtualenv would be unnecessary (there is only ever one project in this container) and a waste of time (this is done as part of a web service aiming at speed), I configure settings.virtualenvs.create to false. However, this causes Poetry to try to install the packages system-globally, which fails because I don’t have root access in the container.

I would like a way to tell Poetry to use pip install --user instead of just pip install to install packages when virtualenvs are disabled.

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[kristjanvalur]

Found this here issue when looking for the equivalent of poetry install --user. The reason is that I am working in a VSCode development container, and want to avoid the unnecessary fuss of creating a virtualenv, thus poetry config virtualenv.create false. using sudo poetry install doesn’t feel quite right.

It would even be better to just configure this, somehow, so that my development container could have these settings here:

poetry config virtualenv.create false
poetry config install.user true

or similar.

It’s perfectly possible to create a virtualenv inside the development container, but this is really quite redundant, because in most cases, there is only ever the single environment inside it. This saves a bunch of steps and indirections.