The OpenEmbedded project has been doing this for quite a while:
http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-2.7-manifest.inc -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
