Re: [Distutils] how to easily consume just the parts of eggs that are good for you

Paul Moore wrote:

I believe that Mac OS X goes for an even simpler structure - applications store *everything* in the one directory, so that install/uninstall is simply a directory copy/remove.

Yep, and thereby cuts the whole gordian knot, throws the pieces on the fire and burns them. :-) Package managers have always seemed to me to be an excessively complex solution to a problem that needn't have existed in the first place. I keep hoping that someday Linux will support something like MacOSX application bundles and frameworks, but I haven't seen any sign of it yet. -- Greg