On Jan 29, 2009, at 17:49 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
Many people are asking for an uninstall command.
This is true.
Many other people, however, are unwilling to let the Python packaging
tool nor the packages that it is installing write into their system
directories. For these people, the system directories are never
allowed to be written into by any tool other than their operating
system packaging tool e.g. apt. For these people, offering a new
feature so that, in addition to the Python packaging tool scribbling
into their system directory at install time, it will *also* later
scribble into it again attempting to undo the changes that it earlier
did is only compounding the problem. :-)
For those people, there are several potential solutions. One is the
path from Python package through Python packaging tool (e.g. stdeb)
to operating system package (e.g. .deb) to operating system tool
(e.g. apt) to system directories. Another is GNU stow.
For me, and for some hackers that I've talked to, making setuptools
compatible with GNU stow would satisfy their need to have a way to
cleanly uninstall.
So, please consider this a reminder in the distutils development
process that you are undergoing that GNU stow compatibility has many
benefits.
Regards,
Zooko
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