[Python-Dev] PEP 376 - Open questions

[Eric Smith]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 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?

Yes, I think that's a use case that doesn't need to be supported by this 
PEP. It's an issue for a single installer, or a group of installers. 
It's not something that _all_ installers need to care about.