[Distutils] What is needed by an uninstall command to be useful ?

[David Cournapeau]

Hi,

    An uninstall command is a long-time wanted feature of distutils. I 
was wondering why it was not implemented: what does it need to do to be 
useful ? AFAIK, make uninstall in autotools simply removes currently 
installed files, with currently refering to the current configured value 
of prefix and all. Isn't this enough  (I am interested in a 'pure' 
distutils command, not a setuptools one) ? What would be the minimum 
semantics needed for an uninstall command ?

    cheers,

    David