[Distutils] tracking requested vs dependency installs in PEP 376 metadata

[Carl Meyer]

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Chris Withers wrote:
> Carl Meyer wrote:
>> The downside here is that it introduces one more wrinkle for installers
>> to worry about handling correctly. 
> 
> How so?

Write some more metadata, figure out whether to write it to
already-installed packages, etc. Not saying it's a hard problem, just
one more thing to do. I already said I'm not opposed to it in theory,
but (as I also said) haven't seen strong use cases for it. Mostly I
don't want the (slightly) better to be the enemy of the good; the
REQUESTED bit is the critical part we don't have now.

Carl
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