New review comment by eli-schwartz on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/49288#discussion_r1573859175

Comment:
What does that mean, "needed these"?

Projects with meson.build don't even use cmake at all unless the project does dependency('some-cmake-project'), in which case meson executes a small cmake dummy project and parses the cmake debug trace to see what cmake detected via a *-config.cmake; this is an alternative to pkg-config.

Meson will almost always print that it is checking for cmake as a system command, if it doesn't find an optional dependency. The fact that it prints "NO" doesn't mean that cmake is a dependency and should be installed as makedepends... it is just an informational message that cmake is not installed.

The actual error, if an error occurs, is always "some-package could not be found, tried pkg-config and cmake" and the solution is to install the actual dependency, not to try installing cmake.