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Chris Withers wrote: > Carl Meyer wrote: >> The downside here is that it introduces one more wrinkle for installers >> to worry about handling correctly. > > How so? Write some more metadata, figure out whether to write it to already-installed packages, etc. Not saying it's a hard problem, just one more thing to do. I already said I'm not opposed to it in theory, but (as I also said) haven't seen strong use cases for it. Mostly I don't want the (slightly) better to be the enemy of the good; the REQUESTED bit is the critical part we don't have now. Carl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFKz0pl1j/fhc23WEARAoEXAKDUsgEMOILvr3dvFMdc6PiN6MNqGgCbBvyb ttaA1Z3zbj7nIsC8FqOFf6c= =4ynG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
