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

[zooko]

On Nov 28, 2008, at 21:22 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> This has already happened to at least one Linux distribution that  
> I'm aware of; they had been stripping out the .egg-info and it then  
> caused more problems for their users than it was worth.

I'm aware of three linux distributions that used to strip out .egg- 
info files and then changes their policy and now leave them  
unmolested: Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu.

Regards,

Zooko