[Distutils] externally managed packages

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 05:54 AM 4/14/2006 -0400, Kurt Schwehr wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>The externally managed option seems to be working great for fink/macosx, 
>but I have a question.  Are these file necessary or should I be removing 
>them from the install?

Yes, they're necessary.  No, don't remove them.  They are there so that 
packages with dynamic (run-time) dependencies can discover what version of 
the package is installed.  Not only that, but many packages have files of 
their own in .egg-info, that are used by themselves or by other systems 
they plug into.

In Python 2.5, even distutils-installed packages will have some of this 
stuff installed, again so that other packages can discover what is 
installed on sys.path.