Is there a recognized way to add options to distutils commands that are only for my local environment? For example I stick all my build artifacts in a directory, that is not in the source directory, and that will not be on the machine of someone who checks out my code. So I don't want to add it into setup.cfg where it will get checked in. For example I set bdist-base = ../../build/astral/master/tmp/bdist that other people won't want it to be written to. Currently I've created a setup-dev.cfg file and added code to my local distutils to also look in this file for options.