Comment # 2 on bug 1225660 from Daniel Garcia

(In reply to Daniel Garcia from comment #1)
> I've been working in an initial implementation of this with two patches, one
> for the python interpreter and another one for the python-pip
> 

Maybe it's easier to do it just in the pip code, using the "prefix" argument:

   # pip installations by default to local
   if prefix is None and scheme_name == "posix_prefix" and "RPM_BUILD_ROOT" not
in os.environ:
       prefix = "/usr/local"

https://build.opensuse.org/projects/home:dgarcia:usr-local/packages/python-pip/files/install-usr-local.patch?expand=1