Hello Chris, Am Dienstag, den 26.09.2006, 14:06 +0100 schrieb Chris Brown: > I imagine its still there. This is for fedora however. My concerns > (which I expressed in reply to that original mail) were that I could > not see a way in which uninstallation was catered for. I'm also a > little hesitant (perhaps unecessarily) at running a setup script as > root without knowing exactly what the whole thing does. Its looks fine > but will need to be maintained and I dont think its the right method > for installing an app as essentially its defining a new method of > software installation, no? the process of building the package in Ubuntu/Debian and maybe even in the .rpm world makes use of the setup.py (to install files into the package). You're right, the package manager (dpkg for Debian/Ubuntu) and rpm do take care of the de-installation. Whoever uses it to install as root should know what he/she does - distutils is used in a lot of other Python projects in exactly the same way. Have a nice day, Daniel
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