Porting setuptools-using software

[Jesse Kempf]

Hi,

I'm trying to fix devel/lamson, which has the problem that it leaves 
files behind after deinstall. It *seems* to me like what's going on is 
that setuptools is failing to see that a given dependency is installed 
and is being 'helpful' and installing the wrong version of it. FreeBSD 
already has the right version of the dependency installed.

When it comes time to uninstall lamson it leaves files behind because 
there's no way for FreeBSD to know that setuptools decided to 'help'.

Is there some magic frob I should use in my port? Right now the approach 
that seems promising to me is to patch setup.py to comment out the 
dependencies -- but that feels like the moral equivalent of a frontal 
lobotomy.

Does anyone have any advice?

Thanks,
-Jesse



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