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The supplied configuration settings are passed to every backend hook call.
+Configuration settings provided via `--config-settings` command line options (or the
+equivalent environment variables or configuration file entries) are passed to the build
+of requirements explicitly provided as pip command line arguments. They are not passed
+to the build of dependencies, or to the build of requirements provided in requirement
+files.
+
## Build output
It is the responsibility of the build backend to ensure that the output is