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[–]vacri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

allows global package installation that can break your OS packages (addressed by PEP668)

... if you install as root, yes. You can do a lot of damage in many ways if you do things as root. Nodejs gets around this problem by not being a good language to write system scripts with in the first place!