It used to be supported with the lxc-create.in script, and
the manpage says it's supported... So let's just support it.
Now
sudo lxc-create -t download --dir /opt/ab -n ab
works, creating the container rootfs under /opt/ab. This
generally isn't something I'd recommend, however telling users
to use a different lxc-path isn't as friendly as I'd like,
because each lxcpath requires separate lxc-ls and lxc-autostart
runs.