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

[Jeroen Demeyer]

Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer at UGent.be> added the comment:

> Could you still give it a quick check?

I did just that. For reference, these are the steps:
- Checkout the "2.7" branch of the cpython git repo
- ./configure --prefix=/tmp/prefix --exec-prefix=/tmp/eprefix && make && make install
- Install pip (https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/#installing-with-get-pip-py)
- /tmp/prefix/pip install --no-deps --verbose pari_jupyter  # This requires the PARI/GP library to be installed
- Note that all Jupyter stuff is installed in /tmp/prefix/share/jupyter while the directory /tmp/eprefix/share does not exist

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