Re: [Distutils] [Python Language Summit] Distutils / Packaging survey

Tarek Ziadé wrote:

I am working on the survey here : http://wiki.python.org/moin/Packaging%20Survey

One of the survey questions asks:

Would you like to see Python's Distutils package provide an uninstall command that removes just the files installed, and cleanup the .pth, even if it does undesirable things ? (one answer)

Why would you ask that? Is there some reason that we can't have an uninstall that works correctly? Mark S.