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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2012-12-06 22:54:10 +0100
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doc: Add new dependencies in `README'.
* README (Hacking): Rename to... (Requirements): ... this. Add the daemon's dependencies.
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Guix is based on the [[http://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]] package manager.
-* Hacking
+* Requirements
GNU Guix currently depends on the following packages:
- [[http://gnu.org/software/guile/][GNU Guile 2.0.x]]
- - [[http://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]]
- [[http://gnupg.org/][GNU libgcrypt]]
+Unless `--disable-daemon' was passed, the following packages are needed:
+
+ - [[http://sqlite.org/][SQLite 3]]
+ - [[http://www.bzip.org][libbz2]]
+ - [[http://gcc.gnu.org][GCC's g++]]
+
+When `--disable-daemon' was passed, you instead need the following:
+
+ - [[http://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]]
+
Optionally, packages from Nixpkgs may be transparently reused from Guix.
For this to work, you need to have a checkout of the Nixpkgs repository;
the `--with-nixpkgs' option allows you to let `configure' know where the