Comment 1 for bug 296124

I think I noticed this earlier, when working out how to set up my development environment.
Is it plausible to replace the /etc/universal-applets/prefix file with a bit of code like:

import sys
import os
prefix = os.path.join(os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0]), '..')

As far as I can see, this would make things a lot easier to manage, since you could then have mutliple UA installs without any issues. (e.g.: install into your home folder for development, and onto /usr/local/ for other users)