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[Atila Neves]

I get why the changes were made, I just hadn't noticed when I 
read the original post that there was user intervention needed to 
keep the status quo.

Atila

On Monday, 26 August 2013 at 20:41:40 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Monday, 26 August 2013 at 19:45:45 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> I should've read this more carefully. Updated my system 
>> tonight and was missing the phobos imports, took a while to 
>> figure out why. For anyone else out there,
>>
>> TL;DR Install the lib{,g,l}phobos-devel, or one of dlang-dmd, 
>> dlang-gdc, dlang-ldc. Or just dlang for the lot.
>>
>> Atila
>
> That is a long-standing issue. Unfortunately, initial package 
> had a harmful choice of `dmd` package having a hard dependency 
> on `libphobos` and changing expectations in that direction 
> hard. I was not able to think anything better as listing it in 
> optdepends and providing `dlang-dmd` group. And suggestions are 
> appreciated.