[issue25592] distutils docs: data_files always uses sys.prefix

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

> If the docs are wrong, their history doesn't matter that much

What I was saying is that I am not sure that the docs are wrong.

Distutils is more touchy that the rest of the stdlib and I err on the side of caution.

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