Why does DMD on Debian need xdg-utils

[ZombineDev 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?
>
> 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.