[Distutils] Packaging Distribute

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:41:06 -0700, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> The other way would be to use Distribute instead of Setuptools for
> what the packaging system is calling "setuptools". That's pretty
> much what is happening in Gentoo (arch) and UHU-Linux (dev),
> right now

Interesting. Gentoo uses distribute but retains the name 'setuptools'?

   DEPEND="!!<dev-python/setuptools-0.6.3-r2"

Ah. But what if PJE releases setuptools with the *same* version number  
0.6.3? What would the gentoo folks do in order to get the new setuptools  
release in their packaging system? Or did they make a decision of totally  
dropping setuptools from their repository?

-srid