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Fix documentation about when setup.py clean is run

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It is only run on failure to build wheels.
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Pradyun Gedam 2021-10-03 10:54:07 +01:00
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@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ depending on the package), the generated wheel is added to pip's wheel cache
and will be used for this installation. The built wheel is cached locally
by pip to avoid repeated identical builds.
If this wheel generation fails, pip will attempt a direct installation instead.
If this wheel generation fails, pip runs `setup.py clean` to clean up any build
artifacts that may have been generated. After that, pip will attempt a direct
installation.
### Direct Installation
@ -70,11 +72,6 @@ For installing packages in "editable" mode
`setup.py develop`, which will use setuptools' mechanisms to perform an
editable/development installation.
### Cleanup
After attempting installation, pip may run `setup.py clean` to clean up build
artifacts from that setuptools has generated.
## Setuptools Injection
To support projects that directly use `distutils`, pip injects `setuptools` into