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Subject: Why does glib-2.0 DEPEND on zip?
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It seems that glib-2.0 has had a dependency on zip for as far back as I
could be bothered to trace the history.  However, I couldn't immediately
see any reason why this should be the case.  Does anyone know where this
came from and what purpose it serves?

thanks

p.