At 04:45 PM 2/24/2009 +0100, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
What about another interoperability hook for system packages: specify
a file that a (system) package manager can include into the egg-info
directory (or egg-file) to tell setuptools/pip that this egg is
managed by the system and hence shouldn't be removed by setuptools/pip.
Which such a file the user of python package tool could be warned if
he tries to uninstall an egg that's owned by the system, instead of
invoking the wrath of a sysadmin by removing such files.
The absence of a RECORD file could suffice for that, I think. Any
file that isn't positively listed in *exactly* one RECORD file
shouldn't be removed.
I'm not super-set on that position, just noting that the absence of a
listing is sufficient to detect something that "shouldn't" (as
opposed to "mustn't") be deleted. The only contradicting use case is
the deletion of packages that were installed via an older distutils version.
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