docs: add snippet documenting rpath behavior change

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+## rpath removal now more careful
+
+On Linux-like systems, meson adds rpath entries to allow running apps
+in the build tree, and then removes those build-time-only
+rpath entries when installing.  Rpath entries may also come
+in via LDFLAGS and via .pc files.  Meson used to remove those
+latter rpath entries by accident, but is now more careful.