[Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

Fri Mar 21 17:21:49 CET 2008

 Joachim> I think, the uninstall should _not_ 'rm -rf' but only 'rm' the
 Joachim> files (and 'rmdir' directories, but not recursively) that it
 Joachim> created, and that have not been modified in the meantime (after
 Joachim> the installation). 
That's not sufficient. Suppose file C (e.g. /usr/local/etc/mime.types) is
in both packages A and B.
 Install A - this will create C
 Install B - this might overwrite C, saving a copy, or it might retain
 A's copy.
 Uninstall B - this has to know that C is used by A and not touch it
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