Why does DMD on Debian need xdg-utils

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

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?

No, it isn't, apparently it's because the "dman" help tool 
requires xdg-open:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13139

You can ignore the dependency.