Under the covers, pip uses "setup.py install --record" (which requires also using --single-version-externally-managed) in order to create an install log, that get's used for uninstalls.
And due to using `--single-version-externally-managed`, the install is done "old-style", i.e., not installed as an egg, and not knowing how to install *from* an egg. the one caveat being that setuptools (not pip) does throw in an .egg-info directory with the project metadata. So is "pip uninstall" the primary historical reason for the lack of egg install support? or is there more to the story? Marcus
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