document the --user cli flag

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branch : distribute
extra : rebase_source : 5d5028ddde7b61624792d6670cd00f57d7ed8646

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diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 803045b6..86ed0521 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ CHANGES
 * Issue 121: Fixed --help install command trying to actually install.
 * Issue 112: Added an os.makedirs so that Tarek's solution will work.
 * Issue 133: Added --no-find-links to easy_install
+* Added easy_install --user
+* Issue 100: Fixed develop --user not taking '.' in PYTHONPATH into account
 
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 0.6.10
diff --git a/docs/easy_install.txt b/docs/easy_install.txt
index a469bb55..ab008a1d 100644
--- a/docs/easy_install.txt
+++ b/docs/easy_install.txt
@@ -144,6 +144,10 @@ and Viewing Source Packages`_ below for more info.)::
 
     easy_install --editable --build-directory ~/projects SQLObject
 
+**Example 7**. (New in 0.6.11) Install a distribution within your home dir::
+
+    easy_install --user SQLAlchemy
+
 Easy Install accepts URLs, filenames, PyPI package names (i.e., ``distutils``
 "distribution" names), and package+version specifiers.  In each case, it will
 attempt to locate the latest available version that meets your criteria.
@@ -716,6 +720,10 @@ Command-Line Options
     versions of a package, but do not want to reset the version that will be
     run by scripts that are already installed.
 
+``--user`` (New in 0.6.11)
+    Use the the user-site-packages as specified in :pep:`370`
+    instead of the global site-packages.
+
 ``--always-copy, -a``   (New in 0.5a4)
     Copy all needed distributions to the installation directory, even if they
     are already present in a directory on sys.path.  In older versions of