From 864fd7764b97ffac8c08946caccc2286bee36ed1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Mannion <125105+tekumara@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 18:05:31 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Ignore PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV for `pip index` (#11671)

Ignore PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV in `pip index`
---
 news/11671.feature.rst              | 1 +
 src/pip/_internal/commands/index.py | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 news/11671.feature.rst

diff --git a/news/11671.feature.rst b/news/11671.feature.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..31f81f8da00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/11671.feature.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Ignore PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV for ``pip index``
diff --git a/src/pip/_internal/commands/index.py b/src/pip/_internal/commands/index.py
index b4bf0ac06e1..7267effed24 100644
--- a/src/pip/_internal/commands/index.py
+++ b/src/pip/_internal/commands/index.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ class IndexCommand(IndexGroupCommand):
     Inspect information available from package indexes.
     """
 
+    ignore_require_venv = True
     usage = """
         %prog versions <package>
     """