Sorry, I consider them distinct because if you install namespace
packages with both then they tend to conflict. I wrote my previous
reply in packaging anger.

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Marius Gedminas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 09:25:31PM -0500, Michael Merickel wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > So I'm confused. I thought Distribute was a rewrite of Setuptools, and
>>> > Pip was just a command-line front end. So there are really three
>>> > implementations of package management?
>>>
>>> yes
>>
>> Um.
>>
>> pip *depends* on Distribute.
>>
>> pip replaces easy_install which is just one part of Distribute.
>
> That's what I thought too but it contradicts what Mike Merickel is
> saying. He seems to be saying that the Pip package reimplements
> Distribute or something like that, and leads to conflicts if both Pip
> and Distribute are installed.
>
> When I'm using site-packages, I install Ubuntu's python-setuptools
> (really distribute), python-pip, python-virtualenv, and
> virtualenvwrapper. When I'm not using site-packages, well, I do the
> same but virtualenv installs a local distribute *and* pip into the
> virtualenv, or at least it says it does.
>
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