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@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Note when all other installers are used, self updates are disabled.
 
 ## PyPI
 
-For convenience, uv is published to [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/uv/). When installed from PyPI, uv can be built from source but there are prebuilt distributions (wheels) for many platforms.
+For convenience, uv is published to [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/uv/).
 
 If installing from PyPI, we recommend using `pipx` to install uv into an isolated environment:
 
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ However, `pip` can also be used:
 pip install uv
 ```
 
+There are prebuilt distributions (wheels) for many platforms; if not available for a given platform, uv will be built from source which requires a Rust toolchain to be installed. See the [contributing setup guide](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#setup) for details on building uv from source.
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 ## Homebrew
 
 uv is available in the core Homebrew packages.