Respect existing .egg-info
files in site packages
#4082
Merged
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Summary
As with other
.egg-info
and.egg-link
distributions, it's easy to support existing.egg-info
files. Like pip, we refuse to uninstall these, since there's no way to know which files are part of the distribution.Closes #4059.
Test Plan
Verify that
vtk
is included here, which is installed as a.egg-link
file: