> > TL;DR: how to deal with setuptools (and newer distutils vendored by > setuptools) replacing .egg-info files with directories?
> I should probably emphasize here that the .egg-info path contains > the package version, so this is a problem only if the same upstream > version is being reinstalled. > > You can easily reproduce the problem by playing with: > > SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib > SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=local # vendored > 2. We could control the distutils version in ebuilds directly, > i.e. force "stdlib" for the current versions and have developers switch > to "local" on version bumps. Combined with 1., this will probably > increase the coverage a bit but dead packages will remain in the way. > It also relies on all devs understanding the problem. How about switching it with a new Python version? (since that is also in the path...) -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
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