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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #1383, comment 1

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14	14	> 2. We could hack the fork of setuptools which is bundled into the Tahoe-LAFS source tree (sometimes called "zetuptoolz") so that it doesn't treat a missing extra as a fatal error. The theory being that if the package doesn't declare an extra then probably it actually has that extra but didn't declare it.
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16		Well, if the installed package doesn't satisfy the dependency (for whatever reason), then setuptools should try to download a version that does. Even if the latter has the same version, it might not have the same packaging error.
	16	Well, if the installed package doesn't satisfy the dependency (for whatever reason), then setuptools should try to download a version that does. Even if the latter has the same version ''number'', it might not have the same packaging error.
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18	18	OTOH I'm pretty hacked off with the quantity and subtlety of setuptools bugs and misdesign; we've reached a point of diminishing returns in attempting to fix it.