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2 files changed, 18 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/install.mdwn b/doc/install.mdwn
index 06da9920f..6fdc8bb9e 100644
--- a/doc/install.mdwn
+++ b/doc/install.mdwn
@@ -7,17 +7,22 @@ Ikiwiki is a perl program, and needs a recent version of perl such as
Ikiwiki requires the [[cpan Text::Markdown]], [[cpan URI]],
[[cpan HTML::Parser]], and [[cpan HTML::Template]] perl modules be
-installed, and also uses the following perl modules if available:
-[[cpan CGI::Session]], [[cpan CGI::FormBuilder]] (version 3.05 or newer),
-[[cpan Mail::Sendmail]], [[cpan Time::Duration]], [[cpan TimeDate]],
-[[cpan HTML::Scrubber]], [[cpan RPC::XML]], [[cpan XML::Simple]],
-[[cpan XML::Feed]], [[cpan File::MimeInfo]], [[cpan Locale::gettext]]
-(version 1.04 or newer).
+installed.
+
+It also uses the following perl modules if available: [[cpan
+CGI::Session]], [[cpan CGI::FormBuilder]] (version 3.05 or newer), [[cpan
+Mail::Sendmail]], [[cpan Time::Duration]], [[cpan TimeDate]], [[cpan
+HTML::Scrubber]], [[cpan RPC::XML]], [[cpan XML::Simple]], [[cpan
+XML::Feed]], [[cpan File::MimeInfo]], [[cpan Locale::gettext]] (version
+1.04 or newer).
+
+It's recommended you have a C compiler, as ikiwiki uses one to build
+wrappers.
Various [[plugins]] use other libraries and utlities; see their individual
documentation for details.
-The Debian packages depend on an appropriate set of these modules.
+The Debian packages depend on and recommend an appropriate set of packages.
While Fedora 7 doesn't have an ikiwiki package, you can install needed
perl modules using this command:
diff --git a/doc/todo/Debian_package_could_Recommend_gcc_+_libc6-dev__44___not_Depend.mdwn b/doc/todo/Debian_package_could_Recommend_gcc_+_libc6-dev__44___not_Depend.mdwn
index 7e579c6d7..ee55de8b9 100644
--- a/doc/todo/Debian_package_could_Recommend_gcc_+_libc6-dev__44___not_Depend.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/Debian_package_could_Recommend_gcc_+_libc6-dev__44___not_Depend.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-IkiWiki doesn't actually need a C compiler etc. except for CGI (and other wrappers?). As it's perfectly possible to use IkiWiki without the CGI mode, would it be possible to make the Debian package Recommend gcc/libc6-dev/etc., rather than Depending on them?
+IkiWiki doesn't actually need a C compiler etc. except for CGI (and other
+wrappers?). As it's perfectly possible to use IkiWiki without the CGI mode,
+would it be possible to make the Debian package Recommend
+gcc/libc6-dev/etc., rather than Depending on them?
> My approach with the dependencies of the package is to depend on
> everything that is needed to use ikiwiki for a fairly full-featured wiki (but
@@ -14,4 +17,6 @@ IkiWiki doesn't actually need a C compiler etc. except for CGI (and other wrappe
> installed by apt. That will be sorting itself out over the next month or
> so. --[[Joey]]
+> [[done]]
+
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