Eventually, I'd like PEP 376 to support system packagers too. So for example, if you did "apt-get install python-pyqt4", then running "pip install python-pyqt4" should return without installing anything .. as RECORD will be part of the .deb previously installed. As for generating the RECORD file, I vote for generating it during install time (w/ absolute paths).
I think we should explicitly not support this. What if pip and apt-get (or rpm, or others) install the same package in different places because of system conventions (/usr vs. /usr/local vs. /opt, say)? There's no way we're ever going to get this right, and it's not worth complicating our lives over it.
Seriously: Is there some real world use case I'm missing? Does any existing install system support this?
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