[Distutils] Some negative press for easy_install

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:38 AM 2/9/2006 -0800, Andrew Straw wrote:
>Note that matplotlib tried essentially this for a while, but apparently
>some folks really didn't like it. I'm not sure what exactly broke on
>their systems (they didn't complain to the mailing list)

I wish more people would complain in useful ways; at least the blog post 
that started this thread was *specific*, even if it was directed to the 
wrong forum.