diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 835e0195..b07760ab 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ project(
       'c',
       version: '0.12.0',
       license: 'MIT',
-       meson_version: '>=0.54.0',
+       meson_version: '>=0.53.2',
       default_options: [
               'c_std=c11',
               'warning_level=2',
@@ -172,8 +172,6 @@ wlroots = declare_dependency(
       include_directories: wlr_inc,
)

-meson.override_dependency('wlroots', wlroots)
-
summary({
       'systemd': conf_data.get('WLR_HAS_SYSTEMD', 0),
       'elogind': conf_data.get('WLR_HAS_ELOGIND', 0),