[Distutils] Some negative press for easy_install

[Robert Kern]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 02:10 PM 2/9/2006 -0600, Robert Kern wrote:
> 
>>Phillip J. Eby wrote:

>>>setuptools-based packages can be forced to install the old-fashioned way
>>>using:
>>>
>>>    setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed
>>>
>>>as long as you also specify a --root directory or a --record file.  This
>>>is of course not upgradeable or uninstallable without help from a
>>>packaging tool that can utilize the results of --root or --record.
>>
>>And this particular user did not want that, either.
> 
> I'm confused.  They didn't want to be able to uninstall?  Didn't want to 
> point --record to /dev/null, or --root to /?  Or something else?

Didn't want setuptools involved at all. He's wasted more hours on it than he
ever really wanted to in the days before non-root installs were reasonably
documented. He just doesn't trust it. He only has setuptools installed at all
because I've convinced him to distribute eggs of his project (and that I will
help him troubleshoot setuptools issues).

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