[Distutils] What's missing from easy_install

[P.J. Eby]

At 11:50 PM 4/21/2009 -0400, David Lyon wrote:

>On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:02:54 -0400, "P.J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com>
>wrote:
> > At 09:43 PM 4/21/2009 -0400, David Lyon wrote:
> >
> >>The uninstaller -m option, doesn't seem to want to
> >>work for me.
> >>
> >>I haven't so far been able to get it to uninstall
> >>any packages.
> >
> > That's not an uninstall option; it simply ensures that the package is
> > no longer listed in easy-install.pth file.  You must manually remove
> > the .egg file or directory at present.
>
>Oh ok...
>
>That doesn't seem so hard....
>
>I will try to implement that...

If you're implementing an uninstall using easy_install, you probably 
also want to use -N and -x, to prevent dependencies and scripts from 
being reinstalled.  You may also want to check what scripts a package 
provides, and uninstall those as well.