[Catalog-sig] Initial requirements

[Andrew Kuchling]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 01:38:11PM -0800, Robin Dunn wrote:
>without too much problem.  It can keep track of what it has installed and
>compare with the meta-data for currently available packages.

What if the user installs packages w/o using any of the tools, by
downloading it and running "python setup.py install"?  You'd really
need a Python-wide database of installed packages; at the very least
this is a question for the Distutils.

--amk