At 11:19 AM 3/22/2008 -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote: >Not exactly. More like, "package management tool X claims exclusive >rights to this package". Python tools would always defer this right >to the system packager, i.e. a system packager is not obliged to >respect a Python tool's claim to a file, but not the other way around. > >That way, system packaging tools don't need to do anything but mark >the installed files as belonging to them.
This probably needs to be refined a little. Exclusive right is too strong, and it goes against Paul Moore's desire for using a single tool. Perhaps instead what it should be is an "uninstall warning" field that must be displayed to a user if an interactive program is doing uninstallation, and that a non-interactive program must refuse to uninstall unless explicitly requested to go ahead. Unfortunately, a warning message might then need to be localized. So this idea still needs some work. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
