[Distutils] [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:19 AM 3/22/2008 -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>Not exactly.  More like, "package management tool X claims exclusive
>rights to this package".  Python tools would always defer this right
>to the system packager, i.e. a system packager is not obliged to
>respect a Python tool's claim to a file, but not the other way around.
>
>That way, system packaging tools don't need to do anything but mark
>the installed files as belonging to them.

This probably needs to be refined a little.  Exclusive right is too 
strong, and it goes against Paul Moore's desire for using a single 
tool.  Perhaps instead what it should be is an "uninstall warning" 
field that must be displayed to a user if an interactive program is 
doing uninstallation, and that a non-interactive program must refuse 
to uninstall unless explicitly requested to go ahead.

Unfortunately, a warning message might then need to be localized.  So 
this idea still needs some work.