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Python Vendor Configuration

Currently, several Python distributors modify the Python install layout. Making such modifications requires distributors to patch multiple standard library modules. The install layout is currently not meant to be a configurable option in a Python installation, but Python developers, distro packagers and module authors all have conflicting assumptions in this area. The resulting outcome is problematic because Python distributors, understandably, fail to correctly modify all places required to satisfy all these assumptions, resulting in incoherent or outright broken Python distributions being shipped to millions