If your user is interacting with the package ecosystem, you already failed multiple steps. Which python projects are routinely doing, but that's a cultural issue about packaging.

For "users" that have to touch the code: well, those get the full developer's perspective. And I've lost more hours than I would like to admit trying to get C++ projects to build. A project has to be really small or packaged really well to make it as simple as ./configure && make