On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 17:36:46 UTC, flamencofantasy wrote:
DMD on debian depends on the xdg-utils package.When I install xdg-utils I get many more packages (see bottom of message).Is that really necessary? Thanks.
It shouldn't be necessary. It's probably a packaging issue. Meanwhile, you can try the install.sh script on listed on http://dlang.org/download. It shouldn't have any unnecessary dependencies.
