Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Eric Smith writes:
> But I think we've veered into metadata that describes what has been
> installed. I don't think that's so useful. As I've said, this is private
> to the installers. If 2 installers want to communicate with each other
> about what they've installed, then they can agree on that data. I just
> don't find it generally useful for all installers, and therefore not
> useful for distutils.
ISTM that the problem that it solves is uninstall in the absence of
the original installer. Am I to understand that you don't think that
use case is important? Or that there's another way to do this?
Yes, I think that's a use case that doesn't need to be supported by this
PEP. It's an issue for a single installer, or a group of installers.
It's not something that _all_ installers need to care about.
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