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diff --git a/setuptools/command/egg_info.py b/setuptools/command/egg_info.py
index 302d6874..cbc30ff8 100755
--- a/setuptools/command/egg_info.py
+++ b/setuptools/command/egg_info.py
@@ -330,12 +330,13 @@ class manifest_maker(sdist):
self.filelist.include_pattern("*", prefix=ei_cmd.egg_info)
def _add_egg_info(self, cmd):
- """Add paths for egg-info files for an external egg-base.
+ """
+ Add paths for egg-info files for an external egg-base.
- The egg-info files are written to egg-base. If egg-base is
- outside the current working directory, we need a separate step
- (this method) to search the egg-base directory when creating
- the manifest. We use distutils.filelist.findall (which is
+ The egg-info files are written to egg-base. If egg-base is
+ outside the current working directory, this method
+ searchs the egg-base directory for files to include
+ in the manifest. Uses distutils.filelist.findall (which is
really the version monkeypatched in by setuptools/__init__.py)
to perform the search.