fix: stop using distutils (for python 3.12) [MLG-1519] #8667
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distutils is removed in python 3.12. We shouldn't really be using it anyway, but rather than do a breaking change to switch to the behavior I want us to have, here's a quick fix that unbreaks us, and I made a ticket to do the breaking change at some point in the future.
Note that to manifest the failure, you'll need to uninstall setuptools from your python environment (which provides its own distutils package starting in python 3.12).
Test Plan
det -h
. With the fix, things work.