<div dir="ltr">PyQt5 has a dependency sip<div><br></div><div>When you `pip uninstall pyqt5` it does not uninstall sip.</div><div><br></div><div>You can do that with `pip uninstall sip`</div><div><br></div><div>> <span style="font-size:12.8px">The problem is, unless that sip dependency is manually removed, any attempt to use PyQt5 results in python3 segfaulting.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">If you just uninstalled PyQt5 then you won't be able to use it.</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 7:22 AM, Phil Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phil@riverbankcomputing.com" target="_blank">phil@riverbankcomputing.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 16 Feb 2017, at 11:49 am, Wolfgang Rohdewald <<a href="mailto:wolfgang.kde@rohdewald.de">wolfgang.kde@rohdewald.de</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Am Donnerstag, 16. Februar 2017, 11:40:17 CET schrieb Phil Thompson:<br>
>> I never use the --user switch so can't comment on what it does.<br>
><br>
> gentoo has a big warning:<br>
><br>
> Running pip as root is not advised. It can render important system tools<br>
> like emerge useless.<br>
><br>
> So if I understand you correctly, the PyQt5 wheel is not meant to<br>
> be installed on gentoo?<br>
<br>
</span>I don't see how you draw that conclusion. The wheels are just wheels - nothing special about them. How you choose to use pip is up to you. If there are issues with using pip in a particular circumstance then that has nothing to do with PyQt.<br>
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