This option determines what paths zc.buildout will scan for already
installed distributions. It can be set to an empty value to enable
isolation. The special values 'sys.path', 'legacy' and 'zc.buildout'
expand to particular paths. The default is 'zc.buildout'.

The 'sys.path' mode simply expands to the currrent sys.path.

The 'legacy' mode reproduces the previous behavior of specifically
scanning the paths of the current zc.buildout distribution and its
dependencies using a weird ordering logic that bears no relation to the
order they appear in sys.path - which can produce unexpected results as
other distributions for zc.buildout, pip, wheel and setuptools may take
precedence over the ones currently running.

The 'zc.buildout' mode is similar to 'legacy' as it uses only the paths
of the currently running zc.buildout and dependencies, but unlike
'legacy' mode it respects the order in which these appear in sys.path,
avoiding unexpected results.

This mode is set to the default because it is closest to 'legacy' mode
and because it has a nice property: running in succession

  `buildout buildout:extra-paths= bootstrap` (1)
  `bin/buildout` (2)

will result in (1) installing zc.buildout and its dependencies in
./eggs in isolation from the environment, and (2) using only the
paths of these in ./eggs, i.e. continuing to operate in isolation,
even without setting extra-paths explictly.