[Distutils] Extending distutils with 3rd party build commands?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Oct 23, 2004, at 8:21, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>
> On 21-okt-04, at 14:50, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> Well, I want users to be packagers as well.  Not every Python module 
>> is going to have a prebuilt .mpkg lying around, and using bdist_mpkg 
>> to install modules has its advantages over a normal setup.py install. 
>>  The three big ones are: it goes into the installation database so 
>> you can remove it, [...]
>
> How do you uninstall an installed package? I haven't found a system 
> tool for that yet.

There isn't one, but the capability is designed into the system.  There 
are 3rd party tools that do it.  Basically you do a lsbom on the 
receipt and remove what's listed.

-bob