[Python-Dev] PEP 376 - Open questions

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Eric Smith writes:

 > But I think we've veered into metadata that describes what has been 
 > installed. I don't think that's so useful. As I've said, this is private 
 > to the installers. If 2 installers want to communicate with each other 
 > about what they've installed, then they can agree on that data. I just 
 > don't find it generally useful for all installers, and therefore not 
 > useful for distutils.

ISTM that the problem that it solves is uninstall in the absence of
the original installer.  Am I to understand that you don't think that
use case is important?  Or that there's another way to do this?