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+synopsis: Lix is built with meson
+# and many more
+cls: [580, 627, 628, 707, 711, 712, 719]
+credits: [Qyriad, horrors, jade, 9999years, winter]
+category: Packaging
+---
+
+Lix is built exclusively with the meson build system thanks to a huge team-wide
+effort, and the legacy `make`/`autoconf` based build system has been removed
+altogether. This improves maintainability of Lix, enables things like saving
+20% of compile times with precompiled headers, and generally makes the build
+less able to produce obscure incremental compilation bugs.
+
+Non-Nix-based downstream packaging needs rewriting accordingly.