On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 16:27 -0500, Michael Ekstrand wrote:
I don't know where, if anywhere, this behavior is specified. It's just
what the Python package installation tools do. I haven't seen any
other program do this, for better or worse.
jhbuild [1] installs itself in $HOME/.local/bin too.
[1]
https://developer.gnome.org/jhbuild/stable/getting-started.html.en)