Documentation: define what is "install" in Meson terms

[denizzzka]

Current manual:
https://mesonbuild.com/Installing.html

What Meson means by the "install"? Really, it's not at all obvious

[eli-schwartz]

Meson uses the same terms everyone else uses, as far as I'm aware.

It's not obvious to me, which second definition you're aware of, that people might confuse things with.

[denizzzka]

Meson uses the same terms everyone else uses, as far as I'm aware.

everyone else == "make install"? I am neofite and I don't know what make install actually does (some relict behaviour what currently tries to broke my package system?))

I am not trolling here. I think it is need to (briefly) describe why and what for build system (which producees binaries etc) acts as package system of my OS (if you mean this)

[eli-schwartz]

Ninja install acts exactly like make install.

Make install acts exactly like apt install (or rpm, or emerge, or pacman, or xbps-install), except without centralized management so you don't get validation of OS package manager dependencies.

OS package managers traditionally run make install to install the software, but then record what got installed and turn those records into OS packages.