On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Mark Sienkiewicz <sienk...@stsci.edu> wrote: > Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >> I am working on the survey here : >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/Packaging%20Survey >> >> > > One of the survey questions asks: > >> Would you like to see Python's Distutils package provide an uninstall >> command that removes just the files installed, and cleanup the .pth, even if >> it does undesirable things ? (one answer) > > Why would you ask that? Is there some reason that we can't have an > uninstall that works correctly?
There are possible side-effects: what would happen if one of the file installed on your system is used by other elements in the system ? (Python is not the almighty OS) On the other hand, it's OK most of the time. (I'll add some links to previous discussion from this ML on the topic) Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
