Restore ability to uninstall distutils packages #3389
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This is a partial revert of 6afc718 to restore the ability to overwrite distutils installed packages. It is not elegant, but some projects (such as OpenStack's devstack) rely on overwriting packages installed via the system package manager. These packages can't be removed because they are dependencies for parts of the base system, but many of the things devstack needs to run requires later dependencies. For historical reasons it's not easy to fix this into a virtualenv, etc, all at once. If distributions move to setuptools based packages, this problem might fix itself.
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As I mentioned, if distributions moved to a setuptools based package, that listed all the installed files, removing this option might be basically painless because nobody would be using it. Would this scare be enough to make progress on this? I don't know. \ BTW, I'm not really defending devstack's approach, because it's easy to point out why it's not right ... but, with bugs such as [1] and prior changes such as [2] we've got things fairly stable with this approach. also i see this is being discussed #3384 [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1255206 |
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This is a partial revert of 6afc718
to restore the ability to overwrite distutils installed packages.
It is not elegant, but some projects (such as OpenStack's devstack)
rely on overwriting packages installed via the system package manager.
These packages can't be removed because they are dependencies for
parts of the base system, but many of the things devstack needs to run
requires later dependencies. For historical reasons it's not easy to
fix this into a virtualenv, etc, all at once.
If distributions move to setuptools based packages, this problem might
fix itself.