New comment by ahesford on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/40385#issuecomment-1307735044 Comment: The flit build style doesn't help us here because we would still need something to install wheels. That means that, except for `python3-build` and `python3-pyproject-hooks`, every other package added here will still need custom behavior. Any package *not* required to bootstrap the PEP-517 toolchain can just use flit with the normal style. We tend not to fetch prebuilt artifacts, so grabbing the wheel isn't really viable. If pip becomes completely unserviceable, I guess I could pull the `installer` sdist into the `python3-flit_core` template and use a local, uninstalled version to do the installation there. For now, pip will get the job done.