[issue7175] unify pydistutils.cfg and distutils.cfg and use .local

[Éric Araujo]

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

When ~/.local/lib was chosen for the user directory, the BaseDir Spec
was given as prior example. Why not go the full way and follow the spec?
The config file could be $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/python/distutils, with
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defaulting to ~/.config.

References:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg (deals with
freedesktop.org-approved file formats too; the part of the code that
deals with paths would make a useful addition to the stdlib, as more and
more applications follow the spec)

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