serious conflicts between python pks installed via yum vs pip

[Neal Becker]

80 wrote:

> 2012/2/10 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Really?  This is the only answer?  Can't we tweek rpm/yum to accomodate this?
>> Does anyone understand what is causing it?  Why would pip install the
>> egg-info differently than rpm?
>>
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> 
> Python guidelines recommends that packagers installs python eggs using
> distutils (python setup.py install as recommended in guidelines) while
> pip use the same install method as easy_install (provided by
> setuptools/distribute). The former one install egg metadata as a file,
> the latter as a directory, that's not a packaging/rpm issue.
> 
> @+
> H.

Yes, but trying to be helpful to users is a fedora packaging/rpm issue.