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use global instead of system-wide specific on doc that global config file is shared by all python installation

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Emmanuel Arias 2020-07-25 14:03:31 -03:00
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@ -380,17 +380,19 @@ variable ``PIP_CONFIG_FILE``.
:file:`C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Application Data\\pip\\pip.ini`
* On Windows 7 and later the file is hidden, but writeable at
:file:`C:\\ProgramData\\pip\\pip.ini`
* System-wide configuration is not supported on Windows Vista
* Global configuration is not supported on Windows Vista.
The global configuration file is shared by whole Python installation.
If multiple configuration files are found by pip then they are combined in
the following order:
1. The system-wide file is read
1. The global file is read
2. The per-user file is read
3. The virtualenv-specific file is read
Each file read overrides any values read from previous files, so if the
global timeout is specified in both the system-wide file and the per-user file
global timeout is specified in both the global file and the per-user file
then the latter value will be used.
The names of the settings are derived from the long command line option, e.g.