>>>>> On Wed, 26 Mar 2025, Michał Górny wrote:

> On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 09:27 +0100, Ulrich Müller wrote:
>> > > > > > On Tue, 25 Mar 2025, Michał Górny wrote:
>> 
>> > 5. We now make it easier to override the PEP517 backend used.  You set
>> >    DISTUTILS_UPSTREAM_PEP517 to the backend used upstream, and
>> >    DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517 to the backend you want to use -- and you don't
>> >    have to edit build-backend in pyproject.toml anymore.  Most packages
>> >    won't need it, and should just continue setting DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517.
>> 
>> These variable names confuse me since some time. How are they related to
>> distutils?
> The eclass is called 'distutils-r1', so 'distutils' is the namespace for
> all variables and functions.

Then let me rephrase the question, why is the eclass called
distutils-r1? How is it related to distutils?

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