Fedora DMD package

[Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d]

Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:

> Is there a good reason why the dmd Fedora 20 package pulls in the
> following as dependencies:
> 
>  cyrus-sasl-lib        i686          2.1.26-14.fc20        fedora
> 152 k
>  glibc-devel           i686          2.18-12.fc20          updates
> 1.0 M
>  libcurl               i686          7.32.0-10.fc20        updates
> 225 k
>  libidn                i686          1.28-2.fc20           fedora
> 209 k
>  libssh2               i686          1.4.3-9.fc20          updates
> 133 k
>  nspr                  i686          4.10.5-1.fc20         updates
> 124 k
>  nss                   i686          3.16.1-1.fc20         updates
> 878 k
>  nss-softokn           i686          3.16.1-1.fc20         updates
> 311 k
>  nss-util              i686          3.16.1-1.fc20         updates
> 68 k
>  openldap              i686          2.4.39-2.fc20         updates
> 335 k
> 
> OK, I can perhaps see why glibc-devel, but the rest? And why i686
> packages on an x86_64 machine?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

glibc-devel.i686 is needed by DMD to successfully build 32bit executables.
The rest is probably there because someone made a mistake. libcurl should be 
the only other dependency there, I think.

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