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Seems to be limited to installers with preinstall scripts,
as far as I can tell. The main example is pywin32, which is
irritatingly significant :-)

(One oddness I couldn't check is that scripts don't seem to
get compiled any more - don't know if this is related to the
same issue. It's not a big deal either way, though).

The fix sounds reasonable.