[Distutils] how to easily consume just the parts of eggs that are good for you

[Greg Ewing]

Paul Moore wrote:

> I believe that Mac OS X goes for an even simpler structure -
> applications store *everything* in the one directory, so that
> install/uninstall is simply a directory copy/remove.

Yep, and thereby cuts the whole gordian knot, throws the
pieces on the fire and burns them. :-)

Package managers have always seemed to me to be an
excessively complex solution to a problem that needn't
have existed in the first place.

I keep hoping that someday Linux will support something
like MacOSX application bundles and frameworks, but I
haven't seen any sign of it yet.

-- 
Greg