[Stefano Zacchiroli, 2009-09-13] > [ Please Cc:-me on replies directed only to -python, > I'm not subscribed ] [...] > I presume you are trying to make "less needed" python-setuptools at > runtime. Still, packages like this one (but I presume various others) do > have setuptools in their "requires.txt" and, once python-setuptools gets > removed, will end up having an unsatisfied dependency at the EGG > level. Would then work to load, using the EGG system, those packages or > would that fail due to an unsatisfied dependency over "setuptools"? > > As I presume the latter, what is the recommended solution? > Patch upstream egg so that it does not declare a dependency over the > full setuptools (because we know that at build-time it is available)? > Or should we rather create a new EGG just for python-pkg-resources and > patch upstream EGGs to rely on it?
it's safe to remove requires.txt from binary package (not the whole Egg-info, it can contain important data, f.e. entry points) -- -=[ Piotr Ożarowski ]=- -=[ http://www.ozarowski.pl ]=-
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