[Distutils] does easy_install.py need to guess the site-packages path?

[James]

As an example I'm looking at setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg, can someone tell
me why setuptools/command/east_install.py in get_site_dirs() does its own
computation of where site-packages is? As of 2.7 there are already 4
separate places in the python where this path is computed. Maybe I'm missing
something but I don't see why an egg would have an opinion on this matter.

Regards,
- James
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