refactor package_python_dist
rule so most of the logic can be reused
#18701
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In #18639, I have a change to allow pants to do editable installs of
python_distribution
s for in exported-mutable virtualenvs of user code.I need all of the dist chroot setup that happens in the
package_python_dist
rule, so I extracted everything that createsDistBuildRequest
into a separate helper function.I would like this light refactoring to end up in 2.16.x so that I can implement #18639 as a plugin for 2.16.x, while waiting for #18639 to be merged and then released in a 2.17.x version.