On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 9:43 AM Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 2022-01-10 at 06:39 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > > 4. We could have the eclasses switch to "local" model and rename > > the .egg-info files somehow at some point. The main question is "rename > > how?" > > > > If anyone's interested, I've published a proof-of-concept for this: > > https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/23721 > > Long story short, the eclass detects if vendored distutils are being > used and renames the directories from .egg-info to .g.egg-info then. > This basically means the tag changes from e.g. "py3.8" to "py3.8.g". > I'm testing this approach now and it doesn't seem to break anything.
A possible alternative would be to define pkg_preinst in the eclass and have it move the .egg-info file out of the way before portage tries to replace it with a directory. That would be a significant API change for distutils-r1 though.
