[Distutils] "pip uninstall" and pip's lack of support for installing eggs

[Marcus Smith]

> questions about pip, but my understanding is that lack of support for
> installing from eggs was intentional because binary eggs were kind of
> broken for the platforms Ian cared about (for the same reasons
> platform-specific wheels are still troublesome today on Linux/OSX).
>


thanks carl, we crossed in mid-air.
you didn't mention it helping the "requirements file" feature of dependency
overrides?
Am I wrong on that?



> (For one thing, for a long time setuptools' pth stuff sort of broke
> virtualenv; because setuptools forces installed eggs to the top of
> sys.path, it meant that you couldn't override something installed as an
> egg globally with something installed as a non-egg inside a virtualenv.
> I fixed that a long time ago with an explicit workaround in virtualenv.)
>

there's a similar situation now with easy_installed packages overriding pip
--user installs

Marcus
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