[Distutils] Are egg files needed when building/installing via --root?

[zooko]

On Dec 2, 2008, at 20:01 PM, David Cournapeau wrote:
> Unless there is a strong reason to do otherwise, I would say it is  
> better to follow linux distributions practice. I can't find it ATM,  
> but they are somewhat documented somewhere on the ML, by some  
> Fedora and Debian packagers.

The Fedora policy is a good one:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Python/Eggs

Regards,

Zooko
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