Re: [Distutils] SetupTools: What Files Were Installed?
At 11:34 AM 12/11/2006 -0500, Alexander Michael wrote:
It sounds like it is safe to assume 1, but that 2 is indeterminate (as easy_install does not leave it's own trace about the user overrides at the time of installation).
It's indeterminate, but verifiable. That is, you can simply look at PATH or other such directories and tell whether a given script came from the egg.
The result being that there is no generic mechanism to find the files that need to be deleted in order to uninstall a package without resorting to requiring that the package was installed with --record=FILENAME.
Right; the "nest" command framework will have a mechanism to deal with this; nests will know what files they've installed, and nest will provide complete package management facilities for the files involved.
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Phillip J. Eby