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[Colin Watson <mp+407802@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Colin Watson has proposed merging ~cjwatson/launchpad:doc-no-system-site-packages into launchpad:master.

Commit message:
Remove some documentation related to system-site-packages

Requested reviews:
  Launchpad code reviewers (launchpad-reviewers)

For more details, see:
https://code.launchpad.net/~cjwatson/launchpad/+git/launchpad/+merge/407802

We stopped using "virtualenv --system-site-packages" in 54684b3d58, but I missed a bit of documentation that was only needed in that context.
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Your team Launchpad code reviewers is requested to review the proposed merge of ~cjwatson/launchpad:doc-no-system-site-packages into launchpad:master.

diff --git a/doc/pip.txt b/doc/pip.txt
index 06782c4..5726e2e 100644
--- a/doc/pip.txt
+++ b/doc/pip.txt
@@ -217,17 +217,6 @@ Let's suppose that we want to add the "lazr.foo" package as a dependency.
 
         bin/pip install --no-binary :all: lazr.foo==1.1.2
 
-    You may need to use the ``--ignore-installed`` option if some of the
-    packages involved happen to be installed system-wide on your build
-    system, but we want to consume them as Python packages.  You can spot
-    this situation by looking for output like this from ``pip install``:
-
-        Requirement already satisfied: netaddr>=0.7.6 in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from python-keystoneclient==0.7.1)
-
-    If you do this, check the output very carefully, as it can easily be
-    wrong.  (This will stop being a problem once we stop using system
-    site-packages.)
-
 4.  Add the successfully-installed packages to the shared download cache for
     future use.