[issue12933] Update or remove claims that distutils requires external programs

[Éric Araujo]

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

BTW, one way to confirm this is to use an OS without the tar, gzip, etc. programs, remove the checks in the code that return or skip if tar is not present and run the test suite.

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