I think it was clearly explained here:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-February/162518.html

I did not do the research into this explanation - it looks like others have though.  I'm just the poor victim who's systems were trashed by this nasty bug, which causes fedora update to abort leaving you with a mess.


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:

On Mar 25, 2014, at 9:29 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well just to be clear then, without resolving this issue (which, IMO, is a bug in cpio that should be fixed) it
> is absolutely unsafe to ever use pip for non-local installs on fedora.
>

It might be because I’m still half asleep and trying to wake up, but I’m confused as to what is happening here, pip should never install a egg info file, it always imports setuptools so it always gets an egg-info directory. Are you seeing something different?

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