Miguel Bazdresch wrote these words on 01/22/06 22:11 CST:

> PCRE is listed as a recommended dependency but it seems to me it's
> required.

For all practical purposes, recommended=required. At least that is
how the developers sort of look at it. There may be some obscure
switch or parameter that will disable the use of something, therefore
it is not really required, so it is listed as recommended. This may
be the case with PCRE and KDE.

I think the developers of BLFS sort of look at it like, "we
recommend something, but a builder doesn't want to follow our
recommendation, so they are on their own". And perfectly right to
look at it that way.

Intentionally not following the recommendations of the book=not
getting too much help in the support lists.

-- 
Randy

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