Hi,
Phillip J. Eby:
> I'm also debating whether this option should also require the --record
> option, since there might otherwise be no way for an external packaging
> tool to know which files and directories belong to the installed package.
>
Sure there is -- you install with --root (in Debian's case it's usually
$pwd/debian/tmp), which was empty before you started, and declare that
*all* files in there belong to the package you're creating. Or you use
an external LD_PRELOADed file installation logger.
Thus you could simply declare that somebody who does that either
deserves to shoot themselves in the foot, or has a valid reason to do it
(maybe I'm testing the latest version and don't want to fill my system
with .pth files pointing to my development directories -- I, for one,
*will* forget to delete them afterwards ... on the other hand, the mess
I just created will nicely clean up after itself when I install the next
official version on top, assuming I managed not to install random
additional files).
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