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@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ You can tell Pipenv to install a Pipfile's contents into its parent system with
 
     $ pipenv install --system
 
-This is useful for Docker containers, and deployment infrastructure (e.g. Heroku does this).
+This is useful for managing the system Python, and deployment infrastructure (e.g. Heroku does this).
 
 Also useful for deployment is the ``--deploy`` flag::
 
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Stopped recommending `--system` for Docker contexts.