python packaging, egg-info file vs. directory

[Thomas Moschny]

2008/4/15, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>:
>  Do you have a reason to need eggs on F7 and F8?

Not really. Just for completeness.

>  If not, then the answer is simply to not provide eggs on F7 and F8. Note:
> If you've already pushed out packages for F7 and F8 you'll need to wait
> until the next upstream release to make this change.

They are only in f7/f8-updates-testing, so I could also make the
change now, I guess.

Nevertheless, I wonder why rpm can't replace an (unaltered) directory
with a file. A deinstall/install cycle would work without problems.

- Thomas