pysetup installed distribute despite dry run option being specified

[ncoghlan]

BPO	14914
Nosy	@ncoghlan, @pitrou, @tarekziade, @merwok

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[ncoghlan]

After approving the pyvenv PEP, I decided to play around with the other big packaging enhancement in 3.3: pysetup.

The following command installed distribute:

pysetup3.3 -n install distribute

The "-n" *should* have caused that to be a dry run, but it actually installed the module.

[pitrou]

Should this remain open?

[merwok]

Contrary to other issues that are relevant to distlib/pip/others, this one can be closed.