diff -urN work.old/pywin32.pth work/pywin32.pth
--- work.old/pywin32.pth	2018-05-08 22:48:44.000000000 +0100
+++ work/pywin32.pth	2018-05-08 22:50:22.000000000 +0100
@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
 win32
 win32\lib
 Pythonwin
+# This breaks any software involving a feedback loop involving PATH and Python
+# One example of such software is the Anaconda Distribition's conda package
+# manager, so we do not do it. We fixed this in a slightly better way anyway.
 # Entries needed for a "portable" installations, where the post_install script
 # isn't run, which would normally copy the pywin32 core DLL files to either
 # the top of the python directory.
 # We just stick the source of these DLLs directly on the PATH.
-import os;os.environ["PATH"]+=(';'+os.path.join(sitedir,"pywin32_system32"))
+# import os;os.environ["PATH"]+=(';'+os.path.join(sitedir,"pywin32_system32"))
