Setuptools! You would avoid 75% of pypi. It is nonsense to pretend that setuptools is not a significant packaging innovation. Its main flaw is that it is based on distutils, a non-extensible design. distutils2 is a lot of setuptools and distutils code with the plug-ability taken out.
Perhaps I should say that I would like distutils to become as relevant to packaging as the cgi module is to web development. It is not a short-term goal.
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