text_combined: martin v löwis qpnyslvloewisde im making assumption authors pep 262 good reason including rather assuming start entire process scratch objections pep remain though requirements says need without saying need goes saying want rephrased duplicate apt rpm without saying want brings us closer need iow pep lacking rationale anything complicated left tools specifically written manage complex software setups tools need data order work hence reason standardizing data instead tools chance infrastructure developed actually helps tools would reasonable goal imo however im extremely skeptical ever succeed degree whoever provides rpms debs msi files actually use data find data incomplete redo anyway im proposing rather finish vision pep 262 standard specification tools abide including rpm dpkg whathaveyou also envision objective pep 262 ie provide database installed packages installdb said ill happy get distutils abide spec 26 even means dont get uninstall tool always installed later using guidos bootstrap tool im even skeptical assumption package database allows uninstallation im 1 iow rpm deb msi write package database also write different database scope pep uninstallation use regards martin _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 202126 0100 pythondev get rid eggs 26 beyond