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Had to deal with this recently, Homebrew on macOS though. Meson build failed. Had to manually install Mako with pip, which also installed MarkupSafe. Then bitched that Homebrew (or Linuxbrew) will break in the future for some reason. So next time I build X, I can look forward to that. :/

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My understanding (which could be very wrong) is that Meson on its own has no external dependencies like Mako, but that (by virtue of being Python) anybody can write a terrible build that introduces additional dependencies. Is that correct?

If so, that's unfortunate, but it isn't that different from what happens in autotools land -- I've had plenty of builds fail because the configure step fails to check for `$tool` and then expects it to be present at build-time.

I believe that's correct.

Each time something requires Meson, you can also bet it requires a different version than the one you have installed... :-/

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