diff --git a/python/CMakeLists.txt b/python/CMakeLists.txt
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 # This file is distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.md for details.
 #
 
-#[[
-Note re: why don't we use standard python packaging tools?
-
-We have the following requirements at development time:
-- rev.ng we want to use orchestra or cmake/ninja directly, without ever using pip manually
-  - we don't want pip to run every time ninja runs, for sure not if it means the modules are always copied again
-- we want to source python modules from the build directory (*not* the source directory)
-  - part of some modules is autogenerated, we don't want to place generated files in the source directory
-
-We have the following requirements for shipping python modules to our users:
-- we want to ship the python modules in a directory (under orchestra root) and add it to PYTHONPATH
-
-We would very much like to use pip to install the packages in the build directory, but there are issues.
-
-By default python packages are installed in a path like /usr/lib/python/python<version>/<libname>. This does not work
-for us, we don't ship python with orchestra and rely on the system interpreter, which might have any version.
-Technically we can add a path like that to PYTHONPATH, but it would be ugly and confusing.
-In theory we could combine pip --target and --root options: the former specifies in which directory modules should be
-installed, and bypass the default naming scheme which includes the python version. The latter is required to stop pip
-from polluting the global list of installed packages.
-
-We can't do this because of this issue: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7829#issuecomment-780309520
-TL;DR: when specifying both --target and --root, pip does not move the installed files from the temporary directory it
-uses while building the package to the target directory, and copies the temporary directory to the root instead,
-resulting in a hierarchy like <root>/tmp/pip-target-<randomstring>/<targetdir>
-]]
-
-
 # Declares a python module as a target
 # Named arguments:
 #  - TARGET_NAME: the name of the CMake target to be created