Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: > I'm not sure what you mean by "using". AFAIK, each distribution's files > (recorded in RECORD) > would be unique to that distribution (else distros like Debian will have > problems, since > files are owned by one package and one package only). Files need to belong to one distribution only, but directories can be shared by more than one. In my example, I meant that ProjectX can create the directories a and a/b and the file a/b/thing, then ProjectZ can create the file a/b/otherthing, and if we remove ProjectX and then ProjectZ, a and a/b won’t be in ProjectZ’s RECORD, because they were in ProjectX’s.
Carl: Can you tell us how pip removes directories? > 1. Record any directories that are created in RECORD, ideally bottom-up. To solve the problem I mentioned above (hopefully making sense this time :), we’d need to record all directories that would have been created. It may be hard or even unfeasible to sort “directory that existed before Python was installed”, e.g. /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages, and “directory created by one project”, e.g. /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/somelib. ---------- nosy: +carljm _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12405> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
