Implement --break-system-packages
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Summary
Per the
EXTERNALLY-MANAGEDspec, installers SHOULD add a--break-system-packagesflag to allow users to override the package manager warnings raised byEXTERNALLY-MANAGED. This PR adds the flag to comply with the spec, and enable system Python installs on newer versions of certain distributions.While this flag feels kind of bad, it's not necessarily a change in behavior. We already allow installing into these system distributions -- it's just that
EXTERNALLY-MANAGEDdoesn't exist for distributions that were packaged prior to the spec, so we don't run into this problem.Closes #2234.