On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote:

> Why is it then that e.g. gperf, xz, gettext, expat etc
> are not checked in the "complete hierarchy of dependencies"?
>

gperf is a build dependency for libiconv, so is not needed at any time
other than while libiconv is being built from source.

Likewise, gettext and expat are brought in only to build xz, and xz is
needed solely to unpack the source for zlib.

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