This is one of the long term plans that nobody has time to do :)

Python packages have INSTALLER file. We should make sure that it is present for our packages and that it says rpm instead of pip.

See https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-pip/pull-request/5 for initial discussion.

@torsava:
> Ideally, pip install should have a switch to to set what will go into the
> INSTALLER file and then we can use this in python-rpm-macros.

@churchyard:
> Note that we mostly use python setup.py install, not pip.

@ncoghlan:
> As far as a longer term answer to "How to reliably set INSTALLER
> appropriately?" goes, I think it would be better if there was an RPM file
> trigger in the base Python package that overwrote the INSTALLER files for
> anything installed via RPM at install time. That way it would automatically
> do the right thing for all RPM managed Python packages with dist-info and
> egg-info directories, whether those packages are old or new, Fedora built,
> or third party.
> 
> (Such a file trigger could potentially even synthesise dist-info directories
> for packages that don't have them, but doing that would require defining an
> upstream convention for reserving a suitable namesspace - pursuing such an
> idea would be a lot more feasible now that legacy PyPI has been shutdown).