Re: [Distutils] tracking requested vs dependency installs in PEP 376 metadata

2009-10-09 Thread Gediminas Paulauskas
2009/10/8 Carl Meyer c...@meyerloewen.net: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gediminas Paulauskas wrote: Debian's Apt has this capability, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackageDependencyManagement . It keeps a separate file to track the manually installed packages, and the flag

Re: [Distutils] tracking requested vs dependency installs in PEP 376 metadata

2009-10-08 Thread Gediminas Paulauskas
2009/10/8 Carl Meyer c...@meyerloewen.net: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, I propose adding a bit to the PEP 376 metadata that indicates whether a package was installed by user request or as a dependency of another package. This would allow (un)installer tools to