[issue12416] packaging does not have hooks callable during distribution removal

[Vinay Sajip]

New submission from Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk>:

In general it is possible for an installation to make certain system changes other than the record of files written during an installation (for example, under Windows, there may be distribution-specific Windows registry updates).

There seems to be no hook that's called when a distribution is removed, which would allow distribution-specific cleanup code to be called (e.g. to undo Windows registry changes).

Such a hook should be provided.

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils2, Library (Lib)
messages: 139230
nosy: alexis, eric.araujo, tarek, vinay.sajip
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: packaging does not have hooks callable during distribution removal
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.3

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