At 04:16 PM 9/24/2008 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
 - os distributors usually try to minimize the versions they include,
   trying to just ship one version.  This single version is installed
   with --single-version-externally-managed, so that it can be
   imported without any pkg_resouces magic and fiddling with pth
   files. Unfortunately then it is not possible to use/import another
   version using pkg_resources.

Can we resolve this by simply documenting the __requires__ "feature"?

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