"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It appears that apps distributed as Python Eggs are either a single > compressed > blob in site-packages directory or a directory under site-packages > directory. > > Is this ALWAYS true?
No. > So by just erasing stuff under site-packages > I can do a COMPLETE uninstallation of an Egg? Essentially, yes -- if that's where you installed it. (but there's also an entry in easy-install.pth) OTOH, python setup.py install *will* in general install other stuff, outside of site-packages (or whatever directory you picked). There's no uninstall command (although Phillip Eby is planning on implementing just that in setuptools/easy_install 0.7, and of course today you can already use e.g. bdist_wininst or bdist_rpm and use a system package manager to install and uninstall -- IIUC those commands will install (and uninstall) eggs if the setup.py uses setuptools). Eggs are not an installation format: and other formats do exist -- for example, "python setup.py develop" on a setuptools-based project will give you an egg installed via an .egg-link file. By the way, the distutils-sig mailing list is a good place to ask these questions. John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
