so, my first rodeo with strfry, as prior *posts* portended.

it's C++, yes, but also perl. its build dependencies are a list that is going to take me some time to divine through probing. oh, you might say 'that's your fault for stubbornly choosing to use arch linux instead of shuttleworth's perversion of debian, i mean ubuntu'. yes, i chose this path, because fuck ubuntu.

i think it's a better question to ask 'why do i have to install a bunch of obscure perl dependencies to build a C++ application?'