The idea is to get rid of distutils which is deprecated in Python 3.10 and normally removed in Python 3.12. For instance, it's used in Capstone disassembly engine.

getrid_get_python_lib.py

def get_site_packages():  # pragma: no cover
    try:
        paths = site.getsitepackages()
        if site.ENABLE_USER_SITE:
            paths.append(site.getusersitepackages())
        return paths
    except Exception:
        try:
            from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib

            return [get_python_lib()]

        # just incase, don't fail here, it's not worth it
        except Exception:
            return []
def get_site_packages_wo_distutils():
    try:
        paths = site.getsitepackages()
        if site.ENABLE_USER_SITE:
            paths.append(site.getusersitepackages())
        return paths
    except Exception:
        try:
            from sysconfig import get_path

            return [get_path("platlib")]

        # just incase, don't fail here, it's not worth it
        except Exception:
            return []
print(get_site_packages())
print(get_site_packages_wo_distutils())

Capstone is impacted here.