[3.12] GH-92584: Remove references to Distutils in PYTHONUSERBASE (…

…GH-108040) (#108060) GH-92584: Remove references to Distutils in ``PYTHONUSERBASE`` (GH-108040) Remove references to Distutils in ``PYTHONUSERBASE`` (cherry picked from commit 636ca31) Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
@@ -811,8 +811,8 @@ conflict.
 
    Defines the :data:`user base directory <site.USER_BASE>`, which is used to
    compute the path of the :data:`user site-packages directory <site.USER_SITE>`
-   and :ref:`Distutils installation paths <inst-alt-install-user>` for
-   ``python setup.py install --user``.
+   and :ref:`installation paths <inst-alt-install-user>` for
+   ``python -m pip install --user``.
 
    .. seealso::
 

diff --git a/Misc/python.man b/Misc/python.man
@@ -592,8 +592,8 @@ works on Mac OS X.
 .IP PYTHONUSERBASE
 Defines the user base directory, which is used to compute the path of the user
 .IR site-packages
-directory and Distutils installation paths for
-.IR "python setup\.py install \-\-user" .
+directory and installation paths for
+.IR "python \-m pip install \-\-user" .
 .IP PYTHONPROFILEIMPORTTIME
 If this environment variable is set to a non-empty string, Python will
 show how long each import takes. This is exactly equivalent to setting