On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 10:19, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > FWIW, for libvirt we decided that despite lack of distro support, > there was not a compelling reason to bundle meson, because it is > really trivial for users to update. e.g. just "pip install". > > pip install meson --user > meson build > ninja -C build
I really hate software build instructions that want me to "just pip install" something. I know nothing about the python out-of-distro packaging process and I don't want the python thing I had to install to build software X to be lurking around on my system forever being picked up and used by random other stuff... thanks -- PMM