The backend does not require a mesonbuild module for every flavor. `meson` and `ninja` commands from the regular RPM packages are sufficient. Index: meson_python-0.8.1/pyproject.toml =================================================================== --- meson_python-0.8.1.orig/pyproject.toml +++ meson_python-0.8.1/pyproject.toml @@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ classifiers = [ dependencies = [ 'colorama; os_name == "nt"', - 'meson>=0.62.0', - 'ninja', 'pyproject-metadata>=0.5.0', # not a hard dependency, only needed for projects that use PEP 621 metadata 'tomli>=1.0.0', 'typing-extensions>=3.7.4; python_version<"3.8"',