iirc, you can have a different base path, but you have to recompile every package locally to have the correct patched paths. I forget where I read about this.
Seems like an unavoidable consequence of how modern software is built
Seems like an unavoidable consequence of how modern software is built
Admittedly supporting that would require updating how all the tools are built and not just defaulting to Whatever Linux Does™, which is probably too much effort to justify in this case, but it is hardly an unsolvable (or even an unsolved) problem.