How can I get Meson to ignore using CMake when im only using it to test CMake support for a given project

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How can I get Meson to ignore using CMake when I'm only using it to test CMake support for a given project, the only dependency that it pulling in is a custom test framework that uses Meson as the primary build tool yet it seems to be trying to use CMake regardless, maybe I missed something do let me know.

Using Meson 1.6.1, project is being tested against Meson 1.3 and newer, target OS from CI file is a debian system.

Repository in question for this experiment:

https://github.com/dreamer-coding/fossil-tofu

[dreamer-coding]

One workaround for this seems to be using subproject vs 'dependency' to retrieve the dependency variable manually but would still prefer to use dependency if it is possible.