pypa/pip — pull request #2045 by bukzor (2014-09-17 22:45:46+00:00)
Title: had to comment this out to make test pass:

py.test tests/functional/test_install_user.py::Tests_UserSite::test_install_curdir_usersite

I truly don't understand what's going on here, but this test is failing for me, and the below change "fixes" it.
This is mostly for discussion.