Paul > I'd say that it's distutils' responsibility not to offer to uninstall > anything it didn't install.
Brian > Yep. Though I think that nowdays dpkg installs to a different directory than > Distutils' default. So users have to specify extra options to break > their systems. But how does those third-party install the projects ? Don't they use Distutils' install command under the hood ? If so, the new PEP 376 APIs are ignoring previous versions of egg-infos and work only with the ones that complies with the new standard (it's a quick control right now, look at the "is_egg_info" API in http://bitbucket.org/tarek/pep376/src/tip/pkgutil.py) So, in any case the uninstall command will not work with project that are filtered out by is_egg_info(). So maybe we could add a "INSTALLER" file with a unique md5 key provided by the project that installed the package, and ask for the key when calling this API ? If not provided, it would use Distutils's md5 key Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
