[Distutils] Passing in arguments to Distribution?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 12:49 AM 11/21/04 -0700, Jeremy Kloth wrote:
>I'm curious as to why the --record option is even needed (as I removed it on
>purpose).

Please don't break '--record'.  I use it to automatically generate a PLIST 
file for the NetBSD packaging system.

Not everybody uses RPMs, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are other 
people who use '--record' to interface with other packaging systems.