The "I bundled a renamed copy of six" is a totally different case which would not invoke provides-dist. "I merged sqlalchemy with a previously separate but wildly popular declarative / database support / whatever extension" would invoke provides-dist.
Daniel Holth On Nov 19, 2012, at 7:41 PM, Donald Stufft <donald.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, November 19, 2012 at 7:37 PM, PJ Eby wrote: >> Can we maybe kill Provides-Dist and its associated baggage first, though? > I would love to kill Provides-Dist. The biggest question there is how do you > handle it's > functionality? If someone needs setuptools but they have distribute installed > they > both shouldn't get installed. > > The need for it for the "2 packages being distributed together" I'm > (personally) > less concerned about since with proper dependency data we should be > able to just depend on things instead of bundling them.
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