Carl Meyer <c...@dirtcircle.com> added the comment: > This is what I proposed earlier: we’d need to record all directories that > would have been created, but I’m not sure if it will be possible. For > example, if one uses --prefix /tmp/usr and pysetup install creates /tmp/usr, > /tmp/usr/lib, /tmp/usr/lib/python2.7, /tmp/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages, > /tmp/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spam and > /tmp/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Spam-0.1.dist-info, then we pysetup > should Spam, should packaging remove only the package and dist-info > directories or also the site-packages, python2.7, lib and usr directories?
I think it would make sense to draw a distinction between "creating the prefix directories (including site-packages)" and "creating the distribution-specific directories within the prefix directories." And only record the latter in RECORD for the given installed distribution. If I use --prefix and install some things, and then uninstall them, I would not consider it a bug to find the empty site-packages directory still remaining under that prefix. (In fact, I'd be surprised if it were removed). > Okay, so I will champion a patch to PEP 376. Thank you! ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12405> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
