[Distutils] What's missing from easy_install

[Jannis Leidel]

> The issue I need to address is to cooperate with other packaging  
> systems.
> I'm using Fedora, which is rpm/yum based.  A new python module is  
> announced,
> I'd like to easy_install it.  The official fedora package may be  
> delayed by
> weeks.  So I easy_install.  But when the fedora update comes, they may
> conflict.

Just as a FYI, yolk (http://tools.assembla.com/yolk/) has a plugin  
system to search for Python packages installed by other tools than  
distutils/setuptools. For example it bundles "yolk-portage", that  
shows if a package was installed by Gentoo's Portage.

http://tools.assembla.com/yolk/browser/trunk/examples/plugins

Cheers,
Jannis