At 09:38 AM 7/9/2009 +0900, 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.

Or uninstall where the installer is "setup.py install", actually.


  Am I to understand that you don't think that
use case is important?  Or that there's another way to do this?

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