diff --git a/doc/language-support.xml b/doc/language-support.xml
index 386db749041..ae650bc2360 100644
--- a/doc/language-support.xml
+++ b/doc/language-support.xml
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ exist in community to help save time. No tool is preferred at the moment.
To develop Python packages buildPythonPackage has
additional logic inside shellPhase to run
- ${python.interpreter} setup.py develop for the package.
+ pip install -e . --prefix $TMPDIR/ for the package.
shellPhase is executed only if setup.py