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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2021-11-29 11:11:10 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-11-29 11:11:10 +0100
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Merge pull request #5678 from t184256/document-libsodium
Document libsodium, which is now mandatory, as a dependency.
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obtained from the its repository
<https://github.com/troglobit/editline>.
+ - The `libsodium` library for verifying cryptographic signatures
+ of contents fetched from binary caches.
+ It can be obtained from the official web site
+ <https://libsodium.org>.
+
- Recent versions of Bison and Flex to build the parser. (This is
because Nix needs GLR support in Bison and reentrancy support in
Flex.) For Bison, you need version 2.6, which can be obtained from