[Python-Dev] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [Distutils] PEP 376 - from PyPM's point of view]

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Sun Jul 19 15:08:20 CEST 2009


On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 at 16:07, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> David Lyon wrote:
>> So it isn't clear why you want to remove the thing that you are
>> advocating works so great....
>
> Jim was quoting someone *else* that had suggested removing it (I'm not
> sure how serious the original suggestion actually was though).

It was Tarek, and I'm pretty sure it was in the nature of what
rhetoricians (among others) call "reductio ad absurdum".  But
Tarek would have to let us know for sure, since it seems from
subsequent discussion that the notion is not _completely_ absurd,
just mostly :)

--David


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